Never before in UK history has so much been owed to so many by so few

It is worth bearing in mind that a government is not the country, it is not the people, it is not society and, most especially, it is not community or the daily reality of people’s lives. Good governance is like grease on a bearing, never to be confused with the bearing itself, which actually does […]

A cabinet of millionaires to lead the working class. Yai!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,494 Friday 15 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, Your cabinet… It’s almost too unbearably funny in a totally mad way. A line up of millionaires all for little ol’ working class us. How sweet. Cuddly Mr Hammond, dappy Lizzie for justice, Amber the banker vulture capitalist, nuke […]

The referendum, a very public display of Tory mockery

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,463 Monday 13 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Since you inveigled your way into government you have systematically attacked the lives of ordinary people in this country, you have rewarding the rich and the corporations whilst focusing the worst of your austerity measures on the poorest and […]

The Tories and the referendum, bring on the clowns

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,459 Thursday 09 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It is at least unfortunate that we have three of the worst characters possible representing the Tory case for leaving the EU, at worst it is wilful manipulation to swing the referendum in favour of staying in the EU. […]

Those who seek power over others are an abomination

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,449 Monday 30 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I have always wanted to believe in something outside of my own conviction. A spiritual, social, political conviction that was so compelling I had no desire but to follow to it. There have been few contenders in my life […]

Clean up for the Queen? I thought she already had

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,347 Friday 19 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I wonder if you have ever heard of the expression ‘noblesse oblige’? The Merriam Webster online dictionary provides a simple definition – ‘the idea that people who have high social rank or wealth should be helpful and generous to […]

Waking up to treachery

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,003 Tuesday 17 February 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, There is no such thing as a ‘free market economy’, it is a rigged game, just as there is no such thing as the ‘trickle down effect’, and if there was a trickle down effect that would constitute the […]