YOU haven't been able to open a newspaper recently, or turn on the telly, without another revelation about who's involved in the complex web of anonymous donations which go into the Tory party. Half of the time I've had to laugh at the numbers......
GRAB a pen and a sheet of paper. I'd like you to do a little puzzle. Write down (in rough terms) what it costs you to feed yourself each day. Add to this the daily amounts that go towards covering your costs of travel, heating and lighting, council tax.......
RECENTLY discovered that we have a new god. It was a revelation, though not exactly on the road to Damascus. I was on my way to the Odeon, for a rally in support of social security workers who had gone on strike. Their reason?
FOR years I have lived within blinking distance of Green's windmill in Sneinton. I watched as it was painstakingly restored; took my children to play in its grounds and explore its inner secrets... and thought little more about it. This week quietly changed all that.
OR years I have lived within blinking distance of Green's windmill in Sneinton. I watched as it was painstakingly restored; took my children to play in its grounds and explore its inner secrets... and thought little more about it. This week quietly changed all that.
SOMETIMES fate lends a hand just when you least need it For a large part of the last year I have been involved in an attempt to stop the passing of the Maastricht Treaty — not because I am anti-European, but because......
SOMETIMES fate lends a hand just when you least need it For a large part of the last year I have been involved in an attempt to stop the passing of the Maastricht Treaty — not because I am anti-European, but because......
20/08/93 "Please Spare Us The 'Bob A Job' Bobbies"
P0LICE officers in many inner city localities fear that a substantial number of young people are becoming detached from social norms... it is the police officers who see most directly and acutely the impact of that underclass on the victims of the crimes they commit."
IT DIDN'T matter about the rain, I was in my element, squeezed in among tens of thousands of young people, all swaying, humming, watching, singing along, taking in the 'mood' of the event This was last weekend, and I had taken my teenage children to the U2.......
WAS one hell of a way of starting the bank holiday — a stint on the Friday night shift in the Accident and Emergency Department at Queen's Medical Centre. Well over 100,000 people are treated there every year, making it one of the busiest......
Only a couple of years ago the wrath of the City poured out from the pages of the Evening Post. You rose up, as one, to denounce the county council's plans for the closure of old people's homes. I can still see the front page picture of an......
Labour's conference in Brighton has been a perplexing experience, dominated by an issue which almost no one else in country gives a fig about. Labour's with the Trade Union movement been made the litmus test of our electability as a government and John Smith's credibility as a leader.
IN THE week that county council announced the likely closure of two secondary schools in Nottingham and Tories are trying to convince them- that John Major is not a clueless mp but the most decisive and charismatic leader since Captain Mainwaring, why 11 writing a......
WHAT would you do about the Russian threat?" It was a question I was regularly asked during the anti-nuclear campaigns of the 1980s. It was the single biggest reason that people gave for believing that, without nuclear weapons......
THIS may come as a real surprise I have just come across some facts that are quite startling. Eighty-two per cent of the public actually support the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel charges. A further 77 per cent want the railways selling.....
As a CHILD I sometimes thought that Prince Charles and I would have had a lot to talk about. We were, after all, kids born at the same time, though not quite at the same place. Bootle was slightly different from Balmoral, and Gordonstoun......
Sooner, rather than later, we are going to have to face up to the continuing tragedy which is Ireland. The steady stream of tit-for-tat killings and bombings leave a trail of human sorrow and loss which is a terrible indictment of decades of policies......
“Dear Gran: I'm sorry to hear that your gas bill has shot up so much since they stuck VAT on it I suppose the electric bill will be just as bad. To make matters worse I've had to enclose some bills of my own in this letter. The social have told me.....
Alice in her 80s. lives a life which is often cold, damp and Isolated. Without relatives, her main link with the outside world is the visitor who comes a couple of times a week from Age Concern. Without much money, she lives in fear of the bills she cannot pay.....
CHRISTMAS approaches. And the lights begin to dazzle and confuse. Should we spend enthusiastically as part of the recovery at hasn't arrived? Can we remember that it was to celebrate a sense of 'giving'. When life did not have to carry......
A QUIRK of fate gave me an unexpected preview of Ken Clark's Budget some ten days before its release. I was on a tour of Littlewoods Pools and had reached the part of the company where they kept a record of 'great cock-ups in the pools industry".
I HAD intended to write about my return visit to Liverpool in terms of leading the MP's football team out at Goodison Park; on to the hallowed turf of my childhood dreams. The fact that only two weeks later this led to the resignation of Everton's manager.......
THE other day upon the stair; I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; I wish, I wish he'd go away. Actually, I wish he hadn't been the Home Secretary. For months I had been trying to get him to agree to a meeting that he might find difficult.......
RELAX, crack open a mince pie. This is about Christmas rather than party politics. I can't remember the exact incident It 'as when I was a child and I must have been babbling on about something or other to my mother - "How far was the end of the universe?"
