The QT

Wednesday 3 July 2024
03/07/2024

Author name: Paul Linford

Changing faces of political parties

When Ken Livingstone was elected Mayor of London in 2000, 14 years after his previous power-base the Greater London Council was abolished by Margaret Thatcher, he began his acceptance speech with the words ‘…as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted’. As I return to the task of writing about politics for The QT, …

Questions remain over Freeports

Over the past week, a regional story that has been bubbling away for years finally received some wider media attention with the report on the Teesworks project, one of the highest profile regeneration schemes in the UK. The land at the centre of the row was once the home of Redcar’s steelworks, dubbed the largest …

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