The Tories are conducting a war on consent and our right to choose

We are living in very dark times in which our right to be informed and to choose how we want to live and be, as human beings, is being repressed and stolen from us by those who believe they have the right to impose their will on us without our permission. This is a crime […]

Depression – the beating of a war drum

No one can say how much depression is a genetically determined condition and how much it is a response to lived experience. Whilst genetics cannot be ruled out, lived experience is something that must be ruled in because depression, like poverty, is a whole lot more than just a personal weakness, problem or failing. If […]

The benign glade of Anarchy

Some years ago I likened anarchy to a forest glade, each form of life flourishing in its own sovereign way as it is able, calling no ‘other’ master. Of course nature has no use for democracy and yet in the glade is democracy in its purest form. It is exercised subject only to the laws […]

The right of self determination

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,220 Sunday 04 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In May 2014 the Independent reported a study by the Office for National Statistics that found more than a million homes lay empty in Britain. In February 2015 the Mirror reported that the number of families hit by the […]

We must reclaim what is being stolen from us

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,137 Saturday 04 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, We are being stolen from every day, our rights to life, sustenance and shelter, liberty, self determination, the presumption of innocence, habeas corpus, freedom from slavery and forced labour, freedom from unwarranted, unnecessary and intrusive state intervention, access to […]

Vulnerable people are the natural prey of narcissists

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,136 Friday 03 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is not right to mock or attack the afflicted and it’s not something I normally do or condone, but just this once I am prepared to make an exception and even to name and shame with this reported […]