‘Activate’ for right of centre bigotry and hate

On 1st March 2018 Activate UK, which proclaims it is ‘Actively engaging young people in the right of centre politics’, posted the following Tweet on Twitter: “As the cold settles in and the national gas supply is running low we are hearing horrific stories… All across the country, Socialists are being forced to put their […]

I protest! I want my priceless pazazz back

I protest! I want my pazazz back. It’s not something I have ever taken lightly or for granted, but somewhere inside me I’ve had this little box of it and it has been very nice thank you. I know it’s still there, but it’s little lid doesn’t lift as often as it used. It’s one […]

The state is our enemy

The system is broken, and by that I do not mean accidentally, oops how careless of me, broken, I mean wilfully and deliberately broken. I have lived my life with mental ill health and what I described as ‘social phobia’ years before any such description existed. Doctors told me I was agoraphobic, which then and […]

Why is there no Department for Nuclear Disarmament?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,515 Sunday 07 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Yesterday was Hiroshima Day, the 71st anniversary of the first of the two nuclear bomb attacks on Japan. The death toll was between 90,000 and 146,000 people and the cry across the world to this day is “Never again!” […]

Democracy’s highest expression is in people’s direct action

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,451 Wednesday 01 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, In an article entitled ‘Election Madness’ in the USA, the late Howard Zinn wrote, “Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.” This is by no […]

Those who seek power over others are an abomination

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,449 Monday 30 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I have always wanted to believe in something outside of my own conviction. A spiritual, social, political conviction that was so compelling I had no desire but to follow to it. There have been few contenders in my life […]

The presumption of taking our consent for granted

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,297 Saturday 26 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The words of Howard Zinn – “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders… and millions have been killed because of […]

The people’s war on terrorism

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,279 Tuesday 08 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The late great Howard Zinn wrote in ‘Our War on Terrorism’: “Let us begin by recognizing that terrorist acts – the killing of innocent people to achieve some desired goal – are morally unacceptable and must be repudiated and […]

Elitist mind games and the public sell out

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,247 Monday 02 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Many people who work in Public Relations (PR) are really just in the business of promoting companies, products, issues, basically advertising in a product/public friendly way, but the real dark arts are practised by spin doctors and propagandists whose […]

The Tories and the servile state

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,232 Friday 16 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Jeremy Hunt wants us to work harder and die younger just like the Americans and Chinese. The World Health Organisation life expectancy rankings has Britain at 19th, the US at 34 and China at 67. Just who in hell […]