We are not rational creatures, as a descriptor of humanity, we have the potential to be rational, but even attempting to be rational has subjective bias for all sorts of reasons including regional and cultural bias. We also use reason and logic selectively, prejudice is very real, but also irrational. We make no conscious choice […]
Tag: Harry Leslie Smith
The Tories handling of Brexit is entirely consistent with their intent
Trying to fathom the Tory strategy over Brexit is not dissimilar to trying to work out where you were and where you were going in one of London’s infamous smogs in years past in which, sometimes, you were unable to see your hand in front of your face. I well remember being completely disoriented, not […]
Don’t let the past be our future
Theresa May recently said in a speech to mark 20 years of the Bank of England’s independence, “A free market economy, operating under the right rules and regulations, is the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created. It was the new combination which led societies out of darkness and stagnation and into the light […]
On this road lies danger
I find myself in an extraordinary situation. The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) forms have arrived and my head is full of the silent sound of synaptic klaxon’s going off, screaming, ‘Danger, danger!’ To achieve this monumental task requires throwing any semblance of independence out of the window and to be compliant to a system that […]
Tory chaos over the EU referendum and the ‘Project Fear’ smoke screen
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,365 Tuesday 08 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, As the head of the DWP Iain Duncan Smith is not someone who should be accusing others of ‘Project Fear’. The entire social disaster that is now the DWP under his mismanagement is the single most feared and despised […]
The government is waging economic warfare and it must end
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,349 Sunday 21 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Since 2010 you have embarked on a ruthless crusade against the people of this country, the unemployed, the young, the disabled, nurses, the fire service, police, people in social housing including the bedroom tax, children, the working poor, the […]
Tories – ‘the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life.’
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,175 Tuesday 11 August 2015. The letters with links are also available at ‘Fear and loathing in Great Britain’ https://fearandloathingingreatbritain.wordpress.com/ Dear Mr Cameron, As I have said many times, the deceit that you are making work pay is in exploiting people for more profit, making work pay […]
Parliaments summer recess, don’t rush back, you won’t be missed
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,158 Saturday 25 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, After George Osborne’s ’emergency’ budget you’ve all swanned off for your summer recess. The media enters what is traditionally called, the silly season, digging up pointless stories to fill its pages in the absence of the antics the Westminster […]
Surviving the savagery of peace
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,039 Thursday 26 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I know that ministers and ministerial spokes people like to say they cannot comment on individual cases, which is a very convenient way of avoiding or evading difficult issues but no such restraint exists when it comes to commenting […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 