Britain can no longer regard itself as a civilised nation

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,205 Saturday 19 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is shameful that six of the biggest disability charities are reporting ‘an increase in resentment and abuse directed at disabled people’. They quite rightly say ‘inflammatory media coverage has played a role in this’ but ‘they primarily blame […]

Dear Jeremy,

Jeremy Corbyn 10 Melton St London NW1 2EJ 17 September 2015 Dear Jeremy, I hope you will forgive the familiarity, but as it’s something you’ve created, I’ll let you off. You’ve done something that is only rivalled by the founding of the NHS and the Welfare State which demanded so much courage and strength from […]

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 […]

Gross inequality feeds the violence of poverty

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,068 Friday 24 April 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What really angered me about you talking about poverty and having a go at Miliband and Balls was that you expressed irritation or anger at them. In a nation like ours poverty is ideological, your government has relentlessly pursued […]

Waking up to treachery

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,003 Tuesday 17 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is no such thing as a ‘free market economy’, it is a rigged game, just as there is no such thing as the ‘trickle down effect’, and if there was a trickle down effect that would constitute the […]

The need to get people radically living, not dying

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,001 Sunday 15 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, We have a fundamental problem in this country which, unless it is addressed, is going to lead to untold suffering and misery for decades to come. At the heart of Conservatism is a core ideological principle which Naomi Klein, […]