When a primary school teacher awaiting the result of an Ofsted inspection took her own life it may have left the nation shocked, but the teaching profession was less than surprised. The coroner referred the matter in a prevention of future deaths report to the Government after linking the suicide of Caversham Primary School headteacher …
The North East region will have two fewer parliamentary seats at the next general election than in 2019, down from 29 to 27, and hundreds of thousands of voters will find themselves in an unfamiliar political landscape when they go to the polls in January 2025 at the latest. The region could elect its first …
In 1907 amid great celebrations the Mauretania left the Tyne where she had been built to begin a stellar career in which she would dominate the world of the great ocean liners. There to take one of his finest pictures was Whitley Bay photographer Gladstone Adams. It was not his first brush with history. He …
The weather – what’s forecast and what actually arrives – is a daily topic and a longtime conversation-maker. But Northumbria University scientist Dr Andy Smith has his sights trained rather higher – on the weather in outer space. With society increasingly dependent on technology, activity such as solar eruptions has the potential to cause serious disruption …
This was the commission: The Gordon Burn Prize is going to be hosted in Newcastle from now on, so could I write something about him and his home city? Yes, but warily. Warily because I wasn’t sure how Burn felt about Newcastle. I knew he grew up in the city’s west end, but he left …
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, …
In October 2022, me and my Dad were sitting in a hospital waiting room at the Freeman in Newcastle. We’d spent a lot of time in those places during the few months before and were becoming pretty adept at passing the time rather than wasting it. He’d want me to say he got canny good …
The North East charity sector is built on a foundation of raw northern grit, unwavering resilience, and a powerful network of community connections. It is this solid foundation that has allowed many organisations to survive and rise from the ashes of COVID-19. In the words of philosopher Bertrand Russell, ‘In a just world, there would …
The date of the next General Election might still be uncertain, but one thing we can be sure of is that this year will witness several significant mayoral elections across England. Once the preserve of constitutional scholars, English devolution is now political centrestage, and nowhere more so than here in the north east where two …
The frustration of the 8am battle on the GP surgery phonelines is one many can relate to. It can take days to secure an appointment – so it’s not hard to understand why there is often little sympathy for those who manage to book an appointment – and then fail to turn up. You don’t …
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