Tag: politics
Merely threatening to bypass Parliament on Brexit places our democracy on...
More years ago than I care to remember, I was a very young school head appointed by what seemed to me a very experienced...
UK politics: touching the void?
I’m not a mountaineering enthusiast, nor a fan of books or movies about it. But I've always been struck by the power of the...
A touch of class
The UK has always been class-ridden: or England has, at any rate. In a sense, we’re relaxed about the fact. We can joke about...
A modern fairy tale: but no happy ending
I went to a fantastic performance at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal on Thursday, Northern Ballet’s new production based on that old fairy tale, Beauty and the...
