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Jamie Driscoll Labour's First North of Tyne Mayor
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Jamie is now heading up and developing the North of Tyne Combined Authority, the regional body that allocates spending and will deliver on manifesto promises.
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If the UK is to stay together for the next 70 years, it’s going to have to change.
UK state funerals are rare. The last one was in 1965, for Winston Churchill. They’re a time for national reflection – about the country we want to be as well as remembering the country we were. And of course, the person who’s passed away. May Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace. Britain is a constitutional […]
The end of an era
The end of an era. Most of us never knew any other monarch. She brought dignity and restraint to her role. May Queen Elizabeth II rest in peace. Seventy years is an incredibly long time to serve as head of state. No other English or British monarch has made it to a platinum jubilee. Starting […]
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. If your pay is failing to keep up with inflation, if your burglary isn’t investigated, if your energy bill eats up all your disposable income, that’s politics affecting your life. On Tuesday, it’s a racing certainty […]
A love letter to the Labour Left
Take yourself back to May 2017, and a moment of hope we shared. In the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, the memorial crowd spontaneously sang Don’t Look Back in Anger. Theresa May’s snap election had looked a certain bet. Then the Labour manifesto was launched. Bold social democratic policies captured the imagination: public ownership […]
We must break the production line metaphor of education
Thursday was a big day in the Driscoll household: my sons got their GCSE results. I’ll not embarrass them by stating their results, but my 16 year old is off to sixth form to do his A-levels. My fourteen-year-old worked out that if he blitzed a few subjects early, he’d have more free time for other things. I […]
