In response to Owen Jones in the guardian, here is my Guardian comment. The take over of the Labour Party by the old guard of New Labour...

Positive Ageing in London held a successful conference yesterday around pensioner poverty which had a number of speakers drawing on...

Just as we are waiting with trepidation for the new round of cuts and a return to the austerity which blighted people's lives and the...

this is a time of great peril for those of us who are over 50 or even more over 66 and facing poverty. The deep inequality which riddles...

After a long epidemic, we have war in Europe with the raised possibility of nuclear destruction, a surge in inflation targeting the poor...

Sorry, just wrote a long post and then it disappeared, but just to say after a hard winter for my and my families health things are...

Now the government, driven on by Malthusian concepts like ' let the bodies pile high' on the alta of alt right MPs demands for their...

So happy that I am able to get the emergency treatment I needed at a local hospital in the middle of the French countryside. Despite...

One of the great things about being a baby boomer is that when we were living through the 60s and 70s everything seemed to be winnable....

Unfortunately we have all had rather a rough time health wise and since Christmas my borderline asthma is now chronic, which got so bad I...

As I have now been in the wooded hills of Southern France for over 18 months while still maintaining an active interest in UK and global...

I regularly like many of us put up comments on current affairs on social media sites, including the Guardian . Here are a few recent ones...

In the small town ( pop 6300) in the French hills where we currently live all is thriving. There are regular food festivals ( mushrooms,...

As I said in my resignation as an age and equalities advisor in my email to Sadiq Khan and his deputy mayor for equalities Debbie...

In the light of the COP 26 conference it is important that seniors play and active role in making sure the UK and the world commits to...

Well now the budget is done and dusted, it looks again like the wealthy have got off lightly - with no new wealth tax and banks get a...

Following research into the recovery plans for London and its boroughs the organisation I chair has produced a report highlighting the...

At the moment I am staying in the wooded hills of the Cevennes in France and the disparity between life here and the UK is pretty...

As bad as the Conservative government is towards us (see previous blog) there not only seems to be no opposition from the Labour Party as...

Hi Following our PAIL committee meeting today it became clear that for many older Londoners it is still not seen as safe to go about our...