Things are getting quite obscene politically. Although I’m trying to slowly come to terms with brexit, trying to justify why so many sensible people voted out (TTIP etc), part of me is still very angry about it. I still feel we have cut ourselves off from the world, and played straight into the hands of xenophobes like farage with their ‘us and them’ mentality. On top of that, we have a government intent on bringing back grammar schools, in so doing reinforcing class devision. The tories, for all their bullshit about ‘working for everyone’, won’t be happy until we’re back to a 1950’s status quo, the rich lording it over the poor. They seem to be becoming more aristocratic, more arrogant, and more unfair.

And where is labour in all this? Where are those with a sense of justice and fairness, who’ll stand up for those who cannot defend theirselves? Nowhere! Nowhere to be seen, squabbling amongst theirselves. It is heartbreaking, soul-destroying stuff. People like me are watching our country go to the dogs, descend into nationalistic irrelevance, and there’s nothing we can do about it but despair.