Some people have been campaigning against plastic bags for ages. The Co-op’s banned plastic bags in Devon and Cornwall, still in that neck of the woods, Modbury is the first town to ban plastic bags and councillor Sheila Newman hasn’t given up on banning plastic bags here in Chorlton. All great stuff! And Continue reading
Prince Harry’s ten weeks living his dream in Afghanistan have, he says, given him a chance to live a normal life, sadly that’s all coming to an end. I think the Ministry of Defence is being a more than a little hasty. Pulling him out is a form of retreat and hands the Continue reading
David Ottewell of the Manchester Evening News is pretty much on the money, reminding us that Manchester’s supercasino has been sacrificed to help Gordon Brown develop a more friendly relationship with Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail. And goodness what a result. The Daily Mail initially reported the story under the gloating headline Continue reading
It’s refreshing to see Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Withington, Lucy Powell, using her Guardian blog to tackle issues around incapacity benefit, or the ‘sick note culture’. Refreshing because too many of our politicians shy away from difficult issues. The phrase ‘sick note culture’ is incendiary, so Lucy’s sending a strong message just Continue reading
Who could fail to admire the students who held an illegal – but surprisingly responsible – rave at Withington’s disused White Lion? The ‘reclaiming abandoned space for the community’ line sounds like convenient nonsense to me, but in a piece that’s failed to make the online edition, the South Manchester Reporter reckons the Continue reading
Fans of Arnold Wesker’s Roots like to say this ‘was and is a revolutionary play’, but perhaps the emphasis should be on the ‘was’. Roots could easily have been subtitled ‘waiting for Ronnie’, who sounds like the worst kind of smart arse (but who, to be fair and without giving anything away, is Continue reading
