The greatest rewards for the rich come from keeping the poor in poverty

It’s beyond astonishing that the government views benefits as a cost cutting exercise. The Tories are ideologically opposed to social security and so they have made the benefits system as punitive and dismal as possible, treating being poor, out of work, sick or disabled as moral failings. The world of finance is awash with money, […]

Mental warfare – a battle for our minds

I feel as if someone has been drilling holes in my mind and filling them with poison. I am passionate about social justice and I am passionate about democracy, bottom up, that is, not top down. The Tories are wiping out people based on an insane binary view of humanity as either strivers or scroungers. […]

The Tories must go!

In the Tory mindset, the lives of ordinary people have no intrinsic value. Our value is measured only in terms of our utility in creating wealth, all other aspects of our humanity are treated as useless and a drain on the ‘free’ markets, including thought, child birth and rearing and our most basic human rights […]