The Marple Leaf
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The far left needs the near enemy

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The whole Corbyn project has started to look frayed around the edges. Not surprisingly, the defeat in Copeland, dire polling, constant scrut...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

50 points and you're still not safe

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In 2013 Peterborough and Wolves were relegated from the Championship with 54 and 51 points. 54 points! I can see the 2017 total being as hig...

An unbearable but beautiful film - The Hard Way - Annapurna South Face (1970)

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This incredible film documents the first ascent of the very difficult South Face of Annapurna, a huge Himalayan wall that the right team ...
Friday, March 17, 2017

George Osborne, you can't be an MP and an editor. You have to choose

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I agonised about getting involved in politics when I was a working journalist. I concluded pretty quickly that it wasn't possible. My ...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

A challenge for the Metro Mayor candidates

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The election for the new role of Greater Manchester Metro Mayor is in May. I'm worried. In my wonky world of civic engagement and politi...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Tony Mowbray - what a difference a manager makes

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There's been plenty of talk over the last couple of weeks about players getting a manager sacked. The performance of the Leicester Cit...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Jason Lowe and Liam Feeney - an apology

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In common with many Blackburn Rovers supporters I have on occasion blasted the performances of Liam Feeney as "lamentable", "...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Burton away, unsettling, but better

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This was a disorienting experience. Stood on a terrace with just the oldest lad, low down in a tiny stadium, behind the goal and watching ...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Manchester Metropolitan University film

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Saturday, February 11, 2017

This has been Jeremy Corbyn's worst week yet

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It wasn't just the abject surrender over the Brexit vote, the resignation of a close ally, or the rumours of his planned retirement. N...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

T2 - nostalgia ain't what it used to be

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Last year we saw the Stone Roses, New Order and James at emotional and celebratory events held in cathedrals of praise to the god's o...
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Friday, February 03, 2017

My mate #22 Mark Webster

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Jonny Owen, Webbo and Me in London 2016 So, to the revival of the "my mate" series where I say something nice about one of my ...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

When Mark Guterman called about his appearance in 40 by 40

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I got a call at the back end of last year from a businessman who I included by name in my 2015 novel 40 by 40 . I don't know Mark Gute...
Friday, January 20, 2017

The Essential Albert Rosenfield - Twin Peaks

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Monday, January 16, 2017

The Walking Dead isn't fascist - Rick Grimes is a Churchillian inspiration

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Rick eyeballs Negan - and lives Steadily, and quietly I've become a devotee of the post-Apocalyptic TV series The Walking Dead. At f...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Left to rot on a siding in Iran - where Northern Rail's hated Pacer trains belong

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Pacer train, rotting in Iran, but still used in Northern England You can raise a laugh when you tell people that the trains used by Nort...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

2016 - I've had a great year thanks

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In the Spring of 1992 Labour lost an election, Rovers looked like blowing their promotion push and I was single and skint. I sat in the pub ...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Barnsley away - the tipping point for Owen Coyle

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Our pre-match prediction ritual sees us each have a stab at the score. We all thought Rovers would lose 3-2 today. It would have been the fo...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Dear Rovers, sorry, but I'm not not coming on Saturday, I'm sick of you

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Dear Rovers, I'm not not coming on Saturday, I've had enough of you. Put it this way, Brighton and Hove Albion are top of the le...
Monday, December 12, 2016

This is the day

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Make a diary note, get out the popcorn and get ready for the change. A year from now, the 12th of December 2017, Labour will have closed t...
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