When you get it right, it can be an election winner. Tony Blair captured the mood of ‘Cool Britannia’ to sweep to victory in 1997. Thatcher’s quip that any mother who could look after children all night and still function the next day could handle being PM, endeared her to the nation in 1979. Clement …
Social media and some pockets of the press were awash with Islamophobic and racially charged comments about Sadiq Khan last week, holding him responsible for violent crimes in London in a way that no white Metropolitan Mayor or Police Commissioner faced during their election campaigns. Numerous journalists working for some of the most prominent news …
As we approach devolution and the mayoral votes, there’s a lot of chatter about what it means to be part of our great region and how we can build a more resilient economy and society. But North East identity is complex. Our history is one of greatness, trauma and bitter sibling rivalry between cities, towns …
Multi-millionaire landlord and side-hustle Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has cut National Insurance by 2% by way of compensation for the cost of, well, bleedin’ everything. That’s a whopping £8 a week for someone on average UK wage, while those earning less than £15,000 have found themselves with an extra £1.63 a week. Oh wondrous, magnanimous overlord! …
The terms “civilised” and “society” were always contested. As forged in fiery furnaces of early modern newspapers, “civilised society” usually meant white, upper middle-class and aristocratic conservative men. They were utterly convinced of the rationality of their social position and very invested in keeping it. You might find the odd remnant lurking like decaying Victorian …
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