FOR MANY PEOPLE faced with an unpleasant reality the instinct is to reach out for something that brings comfort and reassurance that all will be well. It might be a bottle of one’s preferred tipple, it might be a drug somewhat stronger, it might just be a bowl of Granny’s potato soup or Mum’s Macci […]
Day: 27 February 2026
Campaigning in Gorton: A foreign country
THERE was a general feeling of excitement when, at 6.30 a.m. on a weekday, I joined a coach full of Scottish Reform campaigners heading to Gorton and Denton for a day’s canvassing. We had all seen the facts on TV – one of Labour’s safest seats; a constituency of two very separate halves with very […]