You know when you have one of those moments that sticks with you? It was the Majority Conference recently in Newcastle. I’d just got back to the venue, the impressive Great Hall in the Discovery Museum. The hall was filling up. All the volunteers in their Majority T-shirts. The high-qualit...
The obsession with flags is called vexillomania. A flag is just a symbol. It’s tribalism – which side I’m on. Tribalism in football is mostly good natured banter. I’ve been to European games and international games where it has built bridges with foreign fans. That’s what responsible a...
Collapse, verb: to fall into a confused mass or into a flattened form by loss of rigidity or support. (Oxford English Dictionary) Last week saw the Green Party win Newcastle’s South Jesmond by-election, coming from third place. Labour, defending the seat, fell from a 42% vote share to 17%....