The dumbing down of truth

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has announced its 2016 word of the year – “Post-truth”: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” apparently first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in The Nation. […]

Politics is a suppurating boil on the backside of humanity

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,419 Sunday 01 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Politics is a cess pool of filth. What we are seeing today is a crime that lacks a name, it’s a PR driven filth machine. Every politician engaging in this filth is a vile creature without conscience and part […]

Rising hatred must not be allowed to decide the future of Britain

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,103 Monday 01 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Figures from the Crown Prosecution Service reveal that disability hate crime has risen 213% since 2007/08 and that’s just what gets reported, the reality will be much higher. It’s hardly surprising given the relentless assaults on poor and vulnerable […]