A letter a day to number 10. No 1,290 Saturday 19 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Nice to see that you’ve had to increase the number of your special advisers and spin doctors which cost us £11.1 million last year because if anyone needs them, you do. I am fascinated by the world of PR/spin/propaganda, […]
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Capitalism will destroy the world, we must have co-operation, not corporations
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,173 Sunday 09 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Three myths that you Tories love to peddle: The rich are the entrepreneurial drivers of progress, privatisation offers more choice and better service and the trickle down effect. The great capitalist dream is over, bar the screaming, that is. […]
David Cameron, a man entirely unburdened by anything approximating reality
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,164 Friday 31 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It’s really quite novel reading about you speechifying around the world. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, they say, and you do rise to each and every occasion. Only yesterday I wrote about your speech in Birmingham about Britain […]
Welfare dependency is a life line, not a crime
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,128 Thursday 25 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Before I get on to welfare dependency today, let’s just clear up the issue of those who abuse the system. It is part of the great diversity of human nature that some people will always take advantage of situations […]
PR, the dark arts of Parasitic Rats
A letter a day to number 10. No 951 Saturday 20 December 2014. Dear Mr Cameron, Breaking news: George Osborne has given his chief of staff, Rupert Harrison, one of the chief architects of the public sector pay freeze, a 19% pay rise taking him from £80,000 a year to £95,000. Osborne really likes to […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 