The dumbing down of truth

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has announced its 2016 word of the year – “Post-truth”: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief,” apparently first used in a 1992 essay by the late Serbian-American playwright Steve Tesich in The Nation. […]

In the Tory world stripped of humanity people don’t matter

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,539 Wednesday 31 August 2016. Dear Mrs May, Within the DWP, as Iain Duncan Smith (IDS) casually informed us at a parliamentary hearing, people receiving social security payments are known as ‘stock’ and, infamously, David Freud said, “people who are poorer should be prepared to take the […]

Iain Duncan Smith’s brutal legacy marches on

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,501 Sunday 24 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, Words are the candles of our souls, in which a brighter light shines but stumbles for expression. 1,500 letters are just my own flickering light of the struggle in Tory Britain. For reasons which are beyond comprehension, David Cameron […]

Poverty is violence. The welfare reform vote

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,155 Wednesday 22 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What a triumph for the violently malicious and the spinelessly mediocre the voting on the Welfare Bill was. Make no mistake, poverty is violence! That’s the bottom line. And those who drive poverty as policy are no more than […]

It’s ok to insult, humiliate and abuse the poor in Tory Britain!

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,140 Tuesday 07 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, The message is loud and clear, anyone who is poor, down on their luck, out of a job, sick or disabled, living in council or social housing or homeless, not a millionaire or inheritor of wealth, doesn’t aspire to […]

Being dependent on others is not a failing, it’s what living is all about

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,138 Sunday 05 July 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Britain under the boot heels of the Tories! As we blunder into the chaos of the transition of support for disabled people from the closure of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) to, as yet, unknown local authority provision the […]

Tory Britain, where abuse is ok, from the top down

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,029 Sunday 15 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, What an interesting day, nearly 900,000 signing a petition to reinstate someone who was reported as racially abused his producer, thumping him, thus necessitating a trip to A&E and about which an incredibly ignorant and stupid woman claimed that […]