Every politician’s nemesis: the ordinary voter. For our elected representatives, there’s no higher stakes moment than a conversation out in the wild. On such interactions are elections won and lost, and careers made or destroyed. There’s a long history of things getting ugly. In 1880, Joseph Cowen Jr, the founder of the Tyne Theatre, owner …
I’m enjoying the articles I’m reading in The QT each week. With enhanced devolution fast approaching, there’s rightly a lot of speculation and concern relating to how we get the most out of the opportunity. What’s interesting is the commonality of attitudes I’m seeing, irrespective of which sector commentators hail from. It seems most of …
When Jack White, The Wonderstuff and chart-topping North Tyneside neighbour Sam Fender agree to headline Newcastle’s Innovation Festival, it’s likely that Angela MacOscar will feel her work there is done. It’s an ambitious wishlist but then Angela is an ambitious type. In just eight years she has transformed Northumbrian Water’s sector-disrupting summer shindig from the …
Not so long ago, Graeme Stammers spent much of his time playing on a games console at home. Fast forward to today and there’s a chance the footballers he used to play with on FIFA could be sat in the back of his car. The former taxi driver found himself permanently parked up during the …
“I’m a 60-year-old with the thigh muscles of a man half my age. Go on, have a feel.” I almost choked on my cherry Coke. My shorthand suddenly drifted off into a trembling, wavy scribble. I could feel beads of sweat starting to drip down the inside of my best pinstripe trilby. And I realised …
Now in her eighties, acclaimed artist and animator Sheila Graber has been capturing the region in her sketchbook for more than seven decades. Born and raised in South Shields, South Tyneside and the wider North East features heavily in her archives, which she is generously using to raise money for three causes close to her …
Several top-class universities churning out future lawyers; international firms rushing to expand; and a stream of new offices opening this year. Newcastle and the North East have a legal sector that is growing quickly. An area which tended to specialise in a few sectors and boasted well-run local firms has experienced huge change in the …
Voters preparing to elect mayors in the North East and Tees Valley might be forgiven for thinking they are the only ballots on May 2. Indeed, it may ultimately be in the privacy of the polling booth that many find themselves staring at a list of unknown candidates to lead their local police force. That’s …
Amid the gnashing of teeth last weekend following the latest round of VAR-induced squabbling, a sentiment began to emerge that, in the North East at least, put much of that noise to bed: spare a thought for Gateshead Football Club. As supporters, pundits and even official club accounts fumed over refereeing in the Premier League …
Recent guidance issued by the Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, to the Office for Students reveals conflicting priorities in Government and pours fuel on fires burning in an already troubled higher education sector. The focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) — “strategically important high-cost subjects” — is met by a freeze on funding for …
@2024 The QT All Rights Reserved. Built by Nebula Labs
