Baying for blood, the media

In any, great or small, news event there is an untold story which is blandly accepted as the norm but which is long overdue for change as no longer socially or morally acceptable. The snarling hoards of the corporate and freelance media fall like jackals on anything that smells like a ‘good’ story no matter […]

For want of kindness

I missed a doctors appointment this week, it was entirely down to an oversight on my part for reasons that don’t matter. The next day I visited the health centre to apologise and to make another appointment. The receptionist was very gracious, not a trace of impatience or frustration that my oversight had put unnecessary […]

The benign glade of Anarchy

Some years ago I likened anarchy to a forest glade, each form of life flourishing in its own sovereign way as it is able, calling no ‘other’ master. Of course nature has no use for democracy and yet in the glade is democracy in its purest form. It is exercised subject only to the laws […]

The unsung revolution

There are many people who cannot give praise, encouragement or a kind word. It’s almost as if they are regarded as sparse commodities that might run out. The point is that they are a give, a gift, from one person to another (or many others), they are the expression of an innate regard for the […]

Money out of thin air and nothing for the poor

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,372 Tuesday 15 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Let’s talk about money. Money is neither a natural resource nor is it a finite resource. Money is entirely man-made, 93% of which is now made out of fresh air, just numbers on a computer screen. Think of money […]

The free markets, a rigged game for private gain at public expense

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,351 Tuesday 23 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I hear and read a great deal of self righteous indignation and outrage, of the kind: “Why should I (self deluded, hard working, tax payer) pay for ……………. (insert xenophobic hate term of choice). I also hear and read […]

Humans are innately good, if we become monstrous it’s because it is learned behaviour

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,276 Saturday 05 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I hold that humankind are by nature good. We are made enemies of each other and nature itself through perverse nurture; that is, we are trained in competitiveness and in selfishness but we are better than this. The predominance […]

Retrospective ownership established for the fruits of robbery for thieves

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,230 Wednesday 14 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Sing a song of sixpence: Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing, Oh wasn’t that a dainty dish […]

The one thing this country cannot afford is the party of privilege, the Tories

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,217 Thursday 01 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Britain under the Tories, who know the price of everything but the value of nothing, is like the cold slab of an altar of greed, on which life, culture, community and people are sacrificed to the god of the […]

They who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,215 Tuesday 29 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Precariat: “In sociology and economics, the precariat is a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare as well as being a member of […]