No one can say how much depression is a genetically determined condition and how much it is a response to lived experience. Whilst genetics cannot be ruled out, lived experience is something that must be ruled in because depression, like poverty, is a whole lot more than just a personal weakness, problem or failing. If […]
Tag: Tory brutality
I had a dream
I had a dream a couple of days ago, in which my home and my kitchen, where I was working, were invaded by three of the most, obnoxious, arrogant, officious and rude, self serving, obstructive and intrusive men imaginable. I was put in the position of having to force myself past them do anything and, […]
Social exclusion and the Tories proud record
What makes Ken Loach’s ‘I, Daniel Blake’ so powerful is where the plot impacts on life. Most films and documentaries take for granted certain elements of life, like eating and shelter. Such things are assumed, a meal – at ‘home’, in a cafe or restaurant, and access to a home, cafe or restaurant which means […]
Parliament takes its summer break, how many will die?
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,500 Saturday 23 July 2016. Dear Mrs May, I know it has got many MP’s not just stumped, but, I think, frightened… people have discovered, or rediscovered, democracy. Not the tokenism of voting every once in a few years, but actually, actively, holding power to account and […]
Lies, damned lies and the Tories
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,338 Wednesday 10 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, It has been necessary for me to take a few days off from writing these letters. There is a price to be paid for engaging with the cesspool of Tory lies and corruption and the brutality of you and […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 