The peddlers of deception are the enemies of life

In the early nineties I reached a tipping point. It was during the pre-Christmas period and I was drunk. I was watching commercial television and was galvanised out of my seat by a particularly inane, enraging, advert. I grabbed a carving knife that I’d been using to cut up pizza and, yelling some blistering language, […]

Britain – a nation of the dispossessed #FundOurNHS

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Privatising our NHS and all our other once public services is not capitalism, it’s colonialism in disguise, the theft of something we have already built, paid for and run for 70 years, and renting it back […]

Surviving neoliberal cultural warfare

I’ve just come across an AlterNet article entitled ‘5 Ways Trump Is Mentally Torturing Us Now’. UK readers might struggle a bit with this as this is America wearing its heart on its sleeve, something which in Britain is culturally alien to us. But before dismissing this with any of the usual cynical, and frankly […]

Britains decline and the right turning their spleens inside out

A letter a day to number 10. No 1,174 Monday 10 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In 1957 Harold Macmillan said, ‘You will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetime – nor indeed in the history of this country. Indeed let us be frank about it – most […]