When you stop and think about it, society, civilisation, the growth of human kind, has only been possible because of abundance and that each person, save a few less fortunate who we are perfectly capable of supporting, is capable of producing a great deal more that we individually need to live on. Without that abundance […]
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Poverty, the obscenity that is driven by political will
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,542 Saturday 03 September 2016. Dear Mrs May, David Freud said, “people who are poorer should be prepared to take the biggest risks” as they have “the least to lose”. The rich have everything to lose whilst the poor have nothing beyond mere survival, so we must […]
In May’s Britain, what about the voiceless?
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,493 Thursday 14 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, I am most interested that the target demographic for your reign as prime minister is: “If you’re from an ordinary working class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster realise. You have a job but you […]
The con trick that dare not speak its name
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,321 Wednesday 20 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Work, the great Tory magic mantra. It doesn’t matter how sick or disabled people are, Iain Duncan Smith insists that everyone can and must work. It doesn’t even matter whether we’re paid or not, as Smith put it, ‘work […]
The violence of poverty rewarding the few
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,318 Sunday 17 January 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Millions of people are being driven into a third world existence in Britain, which considers itself to be a first world nation. Poverty is not an accident, nor is it a natural force of nature, it is a deliberate […]
They who sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,215 Tuesday 29 September 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Precariat: “In sociology and economics, the precariat is a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which is a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare as well as being a member of […]
Tory Britain, where abuse is ok, from the top down
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,029 Sunday 15 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What an interesting day, nearly 900,000 signing a petition to reinstate someone who was reported as racially abused his producer, thumping him, thus necessitating a trip to A&E and about which an incredibly ignorant and stupid woman claimed that […]
Civil disobedience should be taught as an art form
A letter a day to number 10. No 980 Tuesday 20 January 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Oxfam reports that by next year 1% of the world’s population will own more wealth than the other 99%, that is 1% owning more than half of global wealth which in 2013 was given as $241 trillion, that’s $51,600 […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 