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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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Could you be, Could you be squeaky clean….
It turns out that a serial liar has been caught lying. That a member of the Bullingdon Club was attending boozy parties in lockdown. Surprised? That Boris Johnson’s premiership is circling the drain makes me sad for two reasons. Firstly, it was blindingly obvious to anyone with any understanding of human behaviour that the man […]
“Industry without art is brutality”
What do the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall, the Rugby League World Cup and The Lindisfarne Gospels have in common? (It’s not a Christmas cracker joke). They’re all part of our year-long programme of cultural events. Backed with £2.6 million funding from the North of Tyne, these – and others – are taking place across […]
What did devolution ever do for us?
Over Christmas, a journalist asked me what would be the big political issue for 2022. Let’s separate out the political theatre. Boris Johnson is on the ropes. Will Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak replace him? Who will wield the knife? Yada, yada. It might seem surprising, but I don’t really care who is Prime Minister. […]
Please give to charity but what we really need is a different economic approach
This Christmas I’m enjoying a break from Zoom-world, and spending time with my family. We watched Love Actually the other day. It traces ten separate stories of love. Romantic, platonic, family. Unrequited love, and betrayal. Bill Nighy puts in a great comedy performance as ageing rock star Billy Mack desperate for a comeback, and Emma […]
The story I want to hear is how we turned this around and arrived back at Bedford Falls.
Stories reach us in a way that facts can’t. From telling folktales around a campfire, to reading to our children at night, it’s innate to human communication. Charles Dickens was horrified by the social deprivation in Victorian England. He tried political journalism. He published pamphlets campaigning for social change. But it’s his stories that made […]
