The country I grew up in is dying

Theresa May struts around as if she owns Britain and yet domestically and globally she is Britain’s worst enemy. Nearly a year has passed since the catastrophe of Grenfell Tower. Even at the time it was played down by Theresa May and it quickly became clear that it was a political football, a battle of […]

Mental warfare – a battle for our minds

I feel as if someone has been drilling holes in my mind and filling them with poison. I am passionate about social justice and I am passionate about democracy, bottom up, that is, not top down. The Tories are wiping out people based on an insane binary view of humanity as either strivers or scroungers. […]

Urban trauma, homelessness and economic warfare

We have a problem and it’s one we need to fix urgently. Housing… to briefly put aside all the other myriad disastrous problems which lie securely at the door of the Tories and the neoliberal consensus. I’ll begin with a proposition – no one should be evicted from their home for financial reasons, as a […]

It’s time for change

I’ve lived a reclusive life for over 20 years and been a loner from as far back as I can remember. I’ve tried to do all the things that we’re all supposed to do, school, job, meet someone, get somewhere to live, settle down, have kids, grow old, die and I’ve been crap at all […]

The brutalised lives of the economically excluded

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,531 Tuesday 23 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Another homeless person has been attacked on the streets of Britain and is now in a coma, fighting for his life. I cannot accuse your government of doing nothing when it is doing so much to create such fragile […]

Britain is suffocating under the weight of corporate greed

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,512 Thursday 04 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, The Telegraph reports that there has been a rise in payments for NHS trust interim managers being paid “off payroll” from 961 in 2013/14 to 1,193 in 2014/15. Given that the NHS is in crisis thanks to the actions […]

What price education and inequality?

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,499 Friday 22 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, In your first speech as prime minister you said, ” If you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university.” On Tuesday the Higher Education and Research Bill passed its second […]

Osborne to cut corporation tax – he’s not backing Britain

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,484 Tuesday 05 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I see that George Osborne is set to lower corporation tax to 15% and there are even calls for it to be lower to woo investors to Britain, not least from China. The problem with overseas investment is that […]

The relentless rise of social democracy

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,483 Monday 04 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, There has been a great deal of media coverage of the alleged rise of right wing extremism, and certainly Nigel Farage was triumphant about nationalism. “We have done it without a bullet being fired,” he trumpeted, a heinous insult […]

NLW and the destruction of Britain by Tory hitmen

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,387 Wednesday 30 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It looks like another shambolic coup for George Osborne as we approach the roll out of the new living (minimum) wage. Your government has created another policy with no structure behind it to facilitate it’s roll out, leaving workers […]