School is conditioning. It’s perhaps easier to see it from the position of elite schools, where pupils are educated for exceptionalism rather than dull mediocrity. It can probably be best seen in Boris Johnson. No matter what he does, his exceptionalism will keep the doors of power open to him, even though he is a […]
Tag: Industrial Revolution
Homeless and stateless under capitalism and the tyranny of money
One of the most significant things that has occurred in the modern world, especially in cities, is that people are forced to rely on others for almost everything they need to survive and this becomes a mental and physical trap of dependency which people unavoidably, but unintentionally, fall into. We find jobs working for someone […]
The Tories are ripe for an extinction event
It is not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one most adaptable to change, that survives. Charles Darwin. The growth of civilisation was made possible because every able bodied person is capable of producing more goods than they need for their own personal survival, bearing in mind […]
This lamentable green and pleasant land
I spent last evening with friends at a barbecue where I was gently reminded what a green and pleasant land Britain really is. This image I took is neither unusual or rare in Britain, it is the norm for most of these islands. Britain sits on a sweet spot on the planet, a goldilocks spot, […]
9h:9 – The ousting of time
It all began when his mates Isla and Jeb moved house and in the midst of chaos Jeb had set up his computer system. After a day of lunking boxes he’d emerged from beneath his desk, wrestling with the usual spaghetti, to note the time on his digital clock was 9h:9. Too knackered to even […]
We have just had a defining moment in Britain
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,201 Sunday 13 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, 12 September 2015, a defining moment in British history. I see that your master of the dark arts, Lynton Crosby, is already on the job earning his thirty pieces of silver. I am sure that the bile and filth […]
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 […]
Capitalism will destroy the world, we must have co-operation, not corporations
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,173 Sunday 09 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Three myths that you Tories love to peddle: The rich are the entrepreneurial drivers of progress, privatisation offers more choice and better service and the trickle down effect. The great capitalist dream is over, bar the screaming, that is. […]
The workers are the powerhouse of the nation!
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,084 Wednesday 13 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Mark McGowan, the artist taxi driver, was talking about work yesterday, and had this to say, “You’re stuck. What is work? Why do we work? Why don’t we have more money? The idea of work is to debilitate you. […]
The lives of the poor are acceptable collateral damage to the Tories
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,065 Tuesday 21 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Margaret Thatcher called workers ‘the enemy within’ and went on to destroy industry in the UK as an act of class vengeance. The nation that birthed the Industrial Revolution was crushed by Thatcher and we have since turned into […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 