Personal comment From Fear and Loathing in Great Britain: ” The lesson to learn from the government response to Philip Alston’s report on extreme poverty in the UK is that the Conservatives are driven by a deadly narcissistic ignorance that puts every one of our lives at risk, the exact same brutal ignorance that gave […]
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The silenced. the sanctioned and the dead
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,120 Wednesday 17 June 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, UK wide, we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis the like of which I have not witnessed before nor ever expected to, which, apparently coincidentally, began with the welfare reform bill, the introduction of universal credit and, […]
Victorians long past their natural extinction date
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,025 Wednesday 11 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I’ve been checking out life expectancies in the UK. Life expectancy at the year of my birth (1951) was 66 years for men and 71 years for women. Life expectancy at birth in 2011 was 79 years for men […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 