An open letter to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
Dear Jeremy, I voted for you twice, once in 2015 before the wounds of the referendum were ripped into this nation’s sides, and once afterwards, when I still had hope… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Politics
What value education?
I am going through a severe identity crisis. Part of me feels that I am, at the age of 56, becoming the sort of man I never wanted to be… Continue Reading
Religion, politics, and a space to breathe
Dear Ren, 23rd November 2016, 20:29 Just a quick start to this. Thanks for your letter which arrived as I’m struggling with the middle section of Ice Child – the… Continue Reading
An open letter to the Free Electors of the USA
Dear Free Electors, On December 19th, you have a huge opportunity to demonstrate that the Electoral College set up by the Founding Fathers is not an irrelevance in this day… Continue Reading
An open letter to Trump and Brexit voters
Dear fellow inhabitants of the world, 2016 has been a year where many expectations and assumptions have fallen by the wayside, for a whole variety of reasons. It has also… Continue Reading
I Reject
I reject that autumn starts on the first of September. I reject that organised religion is faith. I reject that faith engenders violence. I reject that one faith is greater… Continue Reading
Politics, mandates, and real life
It’s been a while. In real life, anyway. In politics, not so. We’re due to have a new Prime Minister on 13th July, some time in the evening, a Prime… Continue Reading
We Are The World
They say a week is a long time in politics. One minute is a long time in world economics. Within a minute of the result of the EU referendum… Continue Reading
The Johnson and the Michael Gove
with apologies to Lewis Carroll The sun was shining on the sea,Shining with all his might:He did his very best to makeThe billows smooth and bright–And this was odd, because… Continue Reading
#Remain
Ever since the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU was announced, I have been asking myself whether or not the British public are well enough informed to actually… Continue Reading