The poor are superfluous to requirements

If there is one thing I have learnt over a long lifetime it is that ordinary people are the donkey engine, the powerhouse, that drives the nation in war and peace and that for those in power, our lives are entirely expendable. In war it is we who are sacrificed and in peace we are […]

Grinding the faces of the poor in the dirt

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,238 Thursday 22 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Tonight in a country in which the poor are being driven into poverty and despair to pay down a debt they had no part in creating and where the richest are being awarded handouts and whose wealth is increasing, […]