The poor cannot afford those who get rich on their backs

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,513 Friday 05 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, It is expensive being poor. Being poor comes at a premium cost, whether it is food, health, essential services, transport, life expectancy, being exploited as cheap labour, lack of choice, mental health and quality of life, the poor pay […]

The abusive relationship between government and its cash cow

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,302 Thursday 31 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In all my, soon to be, 65 years of existence I have never had cause to seriously question taxation in all its many and varied forms, I regarded it as a public good from which each and every one […]

The staggering genius of Iain Duncan Smith

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,295 Thursday 24 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The staggering genius of Iain Duncan Smith! If people don’t want to lose out under Universal credit, which Smith has insisted will not happen, all they have to do is work an extra 200 hours a year, according the […]

Benefit denial is the raison d’être of the DWP under IDS

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,283 Saturday 12 December 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, You know, some fool once said, ‘there’s no such thing as a free lunch’ which is really just a triumph of cynicism but which sums up you Tories to a T. I have to wonder if you’ve ever done […]