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Since my last post there have been student 'riots', an attack on Charles and Camilla, a hike in tuition fees, even more consultations released by government and of course the wikileaks saga continues.

Today we find out that the U.S is going to sue B.P over the oil disaster and yet the people of Bhopal still await justice. Pity the Indian government didn't pursue this as vigorously and aggressively as they should have. It's a bit late now to pretend that they care about ordinary and poor Indian citizens.

Is it me or are these strange times we're in? I keep feeling that I'm suddenly going to wake up to find it's all a horrid nightmare...

Well that would be wishful thinking and part of me just wants to emigrate, although I wouldn't know where to. Is anywhere better than here? I suppose running away from problems is never the answer but it seems that this government is hellbent on pushing through whatever money saving measures they have without thinking of the societal impact this will have. They keep coming out with words such as 'fairness' 'big society' 'austerity' etc etc. Yet how can you bring in models of change when you haven't even bothered doing your homework? How is 'fairness' an objective term for a government to use to inform policy? Surely the language of equality which is embedded in law is a better benchmark, but the Tories seem to be afraid of the word 'equality'.

What they called 'riots' is probably a precursor to the kind of demonstration of public discontent we are probably going to see in the next year or so when the cuts really start to bite. Unfortunately there has been little robust opposition from Labour which is probably because they don't know quite how to position themselves yet. They managed to self combust and are now in the process of regrouping, but they bloody well better hurry up...because people like me are looking for alternative solutions...

As a last point, as a person with a disability, I was shocked and disgusted by the police's treatment of a disabled student protestor (Jodie McIntyre). They dragged him out of his wheelchair, which they must have thought was a prop I'm assuming???..during the last student demo. Watching this on youtube made me feel sick to the stomach. We smugly tell the rest of the world about human rights and yet see human rights' abuses on our doorstep. Welcome to the brave new world.