I am changing how and in what way I engage with politics. Politics have become as psychologically toxic to life and living as food poisoning is to our physical well being and, like rotten food, modern politics stinks to high heaven and I have no desire to eat the daily crud which oozes from Westminster […]
Tag: Socialism
Dear Jeremy
Can I begin by sharing something I wrote for social media: Imagine a world without music, art, books, performing arts, creativity, humour, love, caresses, joy. None of these things come from government, all these things are for us, by us, great and small, so it is worth pausing to consider their and our incredible power… […]
What has socialism ever done for us?
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization – Peter Kropotkin Many, many years ago, before bog rolls, condoms and Pet Rocks were invented, people discovered a remarkable thing. They didn’t call it anything, or if they did, there is no record because records hadn’t been invented. In fact […]
Talking ’bout my generation
I reckon I was born into what may have been the most blessed (fortunate) generation in the history of Britain. I am not saying it was easy, we were dirt poor and I spent more time with cardboard in my shoes than soles and we had marrow bone soup every Tuesday, the butcher saving my […]
‘Activate’ for right of centre bigotry and hate
On 1st March 2018 Activate UK, which proclaims it is ‘Actively engaging young people in the right of centre politics’, posted the following Tweet on Twitter: “As the cold settles in and the national gas supply is running low we are hearing horrific stories… All across the country, Socialists are being forced to put their […]
The relentless rise of social democracy
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,483 Monday 04 July 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, There has been a great deal of media coverage of the alleged rise of right wing extremism, and certainly Nigel Farage was triumphant about nationalism. “We have done it without a bullet being fired,” he trumpeted, a heinous insult […]
Cameron must go. #ResignDavidCameron
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,398 Sunday 10 April 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The Tory mind set is remarkable and one I shall never understand. The post-war consensus was a revolutionary movement which gave rise to the NHS and the welfare state. Those who oppose it dismiss it as socialism, wrapping it […]
The dismal, grey and lifeless, Tory world and those who give a damn
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,246 Sunday 01 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I’ve just spent a little time with a small group of friends in Dorset and returning home, to write another letter a day to you, I was faced with an overwhelming sense of dreariness. Reading the news: Philip Davies […]
Dignity and respect and a return to humanity
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,181 Monday 17 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Something is happening in this country, something very important and it’s something that all right wing politicians of all colours would do well to pay attention to because it is not going to go away even though it has […]
Arise the sleeping giant and throw off the chains that have bound you
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,170 Thursday 06 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The left has finally reawakened after many years of hunkering in the darkness of post Thatcher Britain. As she herself put it, ‘Socialism represents an enduring temptation. No one should underestimate Labour’s potential appeal’. No, they really shouldn’t. Nor […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 