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Pits, poverty and grit
1+ week, 3+ day ago (286+ words) ID 200978 | Cut Credit Card © Dana Rothstein | Dreamstime.com I wouldn’t ordinarily rely on AI to provide the content for an article about poverty, but I recently decided to set it a task. I asked a popular commercial AI tool to…...
We’re losing the front line of democracy
1+ week, 3+ day ago (681+ words) Newspaper offices used to be in prominent city centre locations, Used with permission A newspaper seller shouts out the headline, preceded by a cry of “Evenin’ ‘Co!” which sounds more like a strangled seagull than English. People queue up to…...
Reform conspiracy theory row in Newcastle
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) Daniel Astley, Reform UK councillor for Benwell, Scotswood and Denton Burn, speaking at a Newcastle City Council meeting on 2 September 2026. A Reform UK councillor in Newcastle has been criticised for appearing to endorse a “vile” conspiracy theory. Benwell, Scotswood and…...
The future of local government
1+ week, 5+ day ago (674+ words) North East Bylines The future of local government Will new ways be found to avoid tensions between central and local government? In the interests of people in ‘every postcode’? Newcastle Civic Centre council chamber, CC 2.0 A long time ago (between…...
Towards a more democratic media environment
1+ week, 6+ day ago (756+ words) ID 11958426 © Georgiana Branea | Dreamstime.com Where to start? There is clearly so much wrong with the media environment in Britain today, that it is hard to know where to begin. However, I will have a go. For starters there is…...
Ben Houchen’s hypocrisy over “Lawless Britain”
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (984+ words) After keeping a low profile following the A66 crash in Middlesbrough on 22 August, Ben Houchen wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Mail on 30 August. Houchen’s first instinct was to fall back on the favourite trope of Reform UK, the Conservative…...
The A66 tragedy one week on: human grief became content and outrage became a witch hunt
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1422+ words) ID 431599875 © Qoysudzakarovi | Dreamstime.com Seven people died on the A66 last Saturday in South Bank. Two were police officers, PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough who were killed when a Volkswagen Passat travelling the wrong way down the dual carriageway…...
This magic moment
2+ week, 3+ day ago (534+ words) ID 347913521 © Wirestock | Dreamstime.com Burnham is unlikely to be a great statesman. He will not lead Britain on the world stage the way Starmer did, for all his faults. Poor at home, Starmer was respected abroad: Emmanuel Macron sent him…...
From PIP reform to Reform UK: how disabled people became a political target
3+ week, 21+ min ago (1439+ words) There seems to be some confusion in Westminster about why Britain suddenly has more disabled people. You’d think the mass-disabling global pandemic we all lived through about five minutes ago might provide a clue. Politicians stare gravely at graphs. Newspapers…...
Mayors given powers to green light developments
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (350+ words) Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen, and North East Mayor, Kim McGuinness, OGL The move has been backed by mayors from different parties and will bring mayors across the country in line with powers the Mayor of London already has. The…...