Category: UK Politics

  • Matters culinary

    Not arts politics, not mental health, not the usual remit of this blog, but I’m angry so here goes… What I hate most about recent Budgets isn’t the crushing inevitability of yet more dehumanising measures being taken against the most vulnerable people in British society. It’s the chattering that follows online. It’s the equally inevitable…

  • A bit of a rant about “Skivers and Strivers”

    On my way to the studio this afternoon I was listening to the radio and heard something that really annoyed me. I’m not sure what it was, since it was a short journey and I didn’t hear the beginning or end of the programme, but it was someone on Radio 4 talking about “skivers and…