Barbara can still remember when Blyth was the jewel in Northumberland’s crown. ‘We had the best market in the North East,’ she tells me, ‘but now they’ve killed it.’ She gestures outside her tiny shop on Bowes Street. ‘This used to all be lovely cobbles, but they ripped them up and “modernised”. They also raised … Read more
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings, but if the polls are even close to being right, it will take the political equivalent of an asteroid obliterating the Earth to stop Sir Keir Starmer from walking through the door of No 10 on Friday. The well-oiled machinery of the British state has been purring … Read more
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings, but if the polls are even close to being right, it will take the political equivalent of an asteroid obliterating the Earth to stop Sir Keir Starmer from walking through the door of No 10 on Friday. The well-oiled machinery of the British state has been purring … Read more