THE GORTON BY-ELECTION has kept the political world on tenterhooks since it was called. As a result, Hannah Spencer, a former plumber, has been elected as an MP. That’s fabulous news; Westminster badly needs MPs who can tell a hawk from a handsaw, or indeed a monkey wrench from a socket drive. She won as […]
Day: 4 March 2026
Saving the North Sea: A Case for Common Sense
LET ME introduce myself. I am a 54-year-old former Managing Director of an international oil and gas service company. I left school at fifteen, served an apprenticeship as a mechanical fitter, and spent 35 years in the industry. I worked my way up in a family-founded company and can confidently say I graduated from the […]