Scaremongering Readers may have noticed that the two respondents to my letter (You vote Reform at your peril) failed to…
Vote Reform at your peril
Those people thinking about voting Reform “for a change” might well pay attention to the influx of Tories into the…
Stop the Fire Service cuts
In their document proposing that Dorset & Wilts Fire Service closes 8 fire stations, they admit that they have “an…
Council Housing remains the key to resolving the housing crisis
A letter published in the Guardian on February 3rd The answer to John Harris’s question (We can build great council…
Adding insult to injury
I was recently in a shop at Cavendish Square and overheard a conversation. “Cavi used to be really good, didn’t…
Disability benefits – two tier system
There was never a moral case for taking Personal Independence Payments away from recipients of it. If the main motivation…
Borrowing doesn’t mean higher rents
As quoted in the Swindon Advertiser, Matthew Courtliff appeared to be suggesting that the extra borrowing for the council’s Housing…
Voting Reform could ruin your health
Anybody thinking of voting for Reform should look very carefully at their health policy. Nigel Farage has long been an…
No place for the profit-motive in the NHS
A letter published in today’s Swindon Advertiser. Andrew Milroy (Americans should stay away from the NHS) was certainly right about…
Growth at any cost has consequences
For the government, ‘growth’ is a panacea, but just as with a human body growth can be healthy or diseased.…
Martin Wicks 