A letter a day to number 10. No 1,460 Friday 10 June 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I am amazed at all the sound and fury that’s kicked off over the EU referendum, admittedly a lot of it is piss and wind, but regardless of that, where’s it all been hiding in six long tooth grinding […]
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Wages are no longer an entitlement, merely a reward
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,439 Friday 20 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I was very impressed at this little nugget that you threw into the Queen’s speech for the State Opening of Parliament, “… and to move to a higher wage and lower welfare economy where work is rewarded.” It’s amazing, […]
The Tories are violating our human rights daily
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,436 Tuesday 17 May 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, Power speaking to me is not democracy, authority is not democracy and in order to speak to me it must be legitimate. I am democracy, I speak to power as a right, that is democracy. Write that down and […]
Dealing with Tory inflicted trauma
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,376 Saturday 19 March 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, The trouble with maintaining a lie is that it takes so much work. I have to admit, with no pleasure at all, that you’ve had a good run. The great British public have had to go through the process […]
Clean up for the Queen? I thought she already had
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,347 Friday 19 February 2016. Dear Mr Cameron, I wonder if you have ever heard of the expression ‘noblesse oblige’? The Merriam Webster online dictionary provides a simple definition – ‘the idea that people who have high social rank or wealth should be helpful and generous to […]
Life in the Virtual Panopticon
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,269 Saturday 28 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, I am sure you know what a Panopticon is – ‘The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is […]
Junior doctors must win against Jeremy Hunt or we all lose
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,264 Monday 23 November 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, It is typical of Jeremy Hunt (rhyming slang) to take to the Sunday Mail to see what moral outrage he can stir up over the junior doctors almost unanimous decision to strike. Judging by the comments the number of […]
Forgive me if I die laughing of grief
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,241 Monday 26 October 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, One of the major problems we face in Britain today is cognitive dissonance, the difficulty of holding and resolving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviours. We are all subject to it in a complex world, including the police as I […]
The true state of dependency exists in the fragile world of work
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,191 Thursday 27 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, In his recent speech on work, health and disability Iain Duncan Smith made a great many extravagant claims, not least the following regarding what you supposedly inherited from Labour in 2010: * nearly one in five households had no […]
Cameron telling the literal truth about making work pay – the Tory way
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,165 Saturday 01 August 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, This is a letter that has come out of an email conversation with a friend who posited, “What if ‘making work pay’ isn’t another lie coming out of Cameron’s, Osborne’s and IDS’s mouths, but might actually be the truth […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 