The Tory government is a crime against the humanity of the nation

I’ve just transferred some money across to my nieces bank account because she’s gone overdrawn because she hasn’t been paid this month. I did it not just because I care about her, but because I am raging angry, because we always pay, even after we bailed the banks out, we always pay, and bank charges, […]

Life’s protectors and the enemies of life

In a speech to students at DePauw University in Indiana (December 2016), David Cameron apparently said that western leaders must take steps to help those who feel left behind by globalisation and address the “movement of unhappiness” about the state of the world. He called for leaders to change course, ‘So you will see a […]

The unsung revolution

There are many people who cannot give praise, encouragement or a kind word. It’s almost as if they are regarded as sparse commodities that might run out. The point is that they are a give, a gift, from one person to another (or many others), they are the expression of an innate regard for the […]

Jeremy Hunt and that manifesto promise, which he’s betrayed

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,415 Wednesday 27 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, In your 2015 manifesto you stated the following: “We want England to be the first nation in the world to provide a truly 7 day NHS. Already millions more people can see a GP 7 days a week, from […]

The government descent into barbarity and bastardy

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,412 Sunday 24 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, You said in May 2015, “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens ‘as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone”. Making a statement like that we could not […]

Cameron accuses Junior Doctors of blocking progress in our NHS

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,324 Saturday 23 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I wonder if you have an honest bone in your body. You accuse Junior Doctors of blocking progress in our NHS when it is your regressive policies they are fighting. Suggesting there is an 11% pay rise on the […]

Cameron’s home owning democracy, the scam of the century more like

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,316 Friday 15 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, You said on LBC radio in response to a question about whether you worry about your children owning their own homes, “I absolutely worry about it.” Let’s just pretend for a moment that I believe you. If someone who […]

Tips for house builders – don’t build on soggy land (and some other stuff)

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,308 Thursday 07 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, A number of newspapers and organisations are reporting that nearly half the new houses being planned in your economic miracle of a home owning democracy are to be built on flood plains or areas at significant risk of flooding, […]

Modern day slavery is alive and well in the UK

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,249 Wednesday 04 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The abolition of slavery is considered to be one of the mile stones in human progress yet, just like the founding of our welfare state and NHS, it was fiercely opposed by those who benefited and profited from it. […]

People are living and dying in despair and the government is knowingly the cause

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,199 Friday 11 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, For a party that is hell bent on driving poor, sick and disabled people back to the stone age it was pretty rich yesterday to read George Osborne saying, “Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy for the Labour leadership had pulled Yvette […]