Photo from wikimedia commons Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has resigned after five years in the job. Despite successes such as a decrease in the overall levels of serious injury to young people, and large numbers of dangerous weapons being seized, her tenure has been plagued by a series ofContinue Reading
Photo from iStock They are! They definitely are! There are even those people who make up their own words. For example, Lewis Carrol in Jabberwocky: ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. What is impressiveContinue Reading
Liberty Steel Pipe Mill in Hartlepool Photo from Alamy This morning the night shift clocked out of the long green sheds of the Hartlepool Steel Pipe Mills on the south of the town, wondering if they would clock in again next week. In the Hartlepool plant, a works that hadContinue Reading
Photo from deposit photos Community defibrillators are being rolled out across more Newcastle neighbourhoods including the Kenton area as part of the Council’s ‘Heart Start’ city programme. Kenton Councillor Ged Bell said: ‘ “With our personal health being brought into sharp focus in the last two years the council hasContinue Reading
It can be easy to get swept up in the drama surrounding Boris Johnson. He, after all, appears to encourage it. But the current instability plaguing the British government raises more important questions than what will happen to one man. As the administration lurches from one crisis to the nextContinue Reading
Photo from creative commons This month the UK is marking the Queen’s platinum Jubilee. She’s been on the throne so long that very few of us can remember anyone else in the job. In her terms, it’s been a life of service and a job well done, and one fromContinue Reading
Photo from creative commons …what happened to the Leader Of The Opposition today…. Roared on, the mob duly slobbered to the fat piper’s drunken tones, makeshift nooses jigging loose, baying, braying in his master’s voice, their hatred music to his tonedeaf ears. Summoning an army of the bitter and sourContinue Reading
Bee on flower Photo from iStock Plants are flowering about a month earlier in the UK due to climate change. That’s according scientists at the University of Cambridge, who recently analysed the first flowering dates of 406 species and found a link to warmer temperatures in spring. The researchers comparedContinue Reading
Quorn mince and dumplings Quorn mince and dumplings is a tasty and filling evening meal that serves 3-4. Serve with mashed potatoes and green veg. Ingredients Frozen quorn mince One large onion 2 cloves of garlic (adjust to taste) a few mushrooms Bisto gravy granules For the dumplings 150g self-raisingContinue Reading
Famously, Boris Johnson likes to wheel out a classical allusion… Fiddling whilst Rome burned, the Emperor Nero has long been the epitome for the self-indulgent ruler, entirely oblivious to the needs of his people. He was a sexually incontinent narcissist and parasite, born to the purple and convinced that theContinue Reading
