The country I grew up in is dying

Theresa May struts around as if she owns Britain and yet domestically and globally she is Britain’s worst enemy. Nearly a year has passed since the catastrophe of Grenfell Tower. Even at the time it was played down by Theresa May and it quickly became clear that it was a political football, a battle of […]

Standing against the tide of government oppression

There is nothing new in the right wing establishments treatment of the Windrush generation of people who were invited and transported to Britain in our hour of need after WWII. A Conservative campaign poster of 1964 read, “Face the facts. If you desire a coloured for your neighbour, vote Labour. If you are already burdoned […]

Bureaucracy – the blind leading the oppressed

I have a problem with bureaucracy and I don’t mean a little one, it is so bad it can drive me into the deepest depression and to the edge of despair. Confronted with bureaucracy my mind goes into self destruct mode and the physical sensation is one of intense distress, physical, bone deep, aching, hollow, […]

The government is depriving us of state and status

In 2015 David Cameron spoke these fateful words, “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens ‘as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone’.” Of course, as ever with the Conservatives, Cameron made no attempt to clarify in what way he intended to interfere in […]