AI is taking over, is there life after work?

With the increasing growth and exploitation of Artificial Intelligence, which is taking over from human labour in the workplace, the underlying assumption is that without work, humans are obsolete. The problem here is a ridiculous binary argument, that the only way humans can survive is through work in the modern post industrial world. The question […]

Happy pro-active new year – the Tories must go

In 1921, C P Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian for nearly 50 years, wrote an essay to mark the papers centenary in which he wrote that the “primary office” of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying “comment is free, but facts are sacred”. He would likely have abhorred the present time where news […]

Ah the sweet, cloying, stink of corruption

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,432 Friday 13 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Ah corruption. It’s a funny old thing, even the police couldn’t believe that the UK government could act against the best interests of the people. In one of my attempts to report the DWP for human rights abuses I […]

The passing of a Judas

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,377 Sunday 20 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Whilst I welcome the news that Iain Duncan Smith has resigned as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, he walks away from the chaos that he remains responsible for orchestrating. In his letter of resignation Smith writes, ‘It […]

Wherever the Tories are from they are no earthly good to man nor beast

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,369 Saturday 12 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Proof positive that alternate universes exist and, indeed, regularly interact with our own. One entity clearly from such a universe is Iain Duncan Smith who, statistical genius that he is, claims that 75% of sanctioned benefit claimants thank him […]