Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Together (This is the Place) - New Mount City Breakers ft. Tony Walsh

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Monday, June 26, 2017

Why everyone's wrong about Arlene Foster and the DUP

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Back in 2012 I took a finance conference to Belfast. It wasn't unusual to get some warm words from a local politician, but in Northern ...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Jonathan Schofield and Manchester's "betrayal" of its radical history

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I could listen to Jonathan Schofield all day. I could listen to a talk on Manchester's radical history for even longer than that. So la...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

A bitter victory for Theresa May, a glorious defeat for Jeremy Corbyn

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Back in April when the General Election was called, my contribution to the discussion was that it proved that  everything we thought we kne...
Monday, June 05, 2017

My mate #23 Jonathan Reynolds

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So, to the latest installment of the "my mate" series where I say something about one of my mates, telling a tale about how we ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The Place - poet Tony Walsh reads out his tribute to Manchester

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Friday, May 12, 2017

Tony Wilson explains praxis to Gillian Gilbert, in the bath

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Sunday, May 07, 2017

The precise moment when I realised my Rovers were going down

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I think I can pinpoint the exact moment when I should have realised Blackburn Rovers were heading for the Third Division, or League One i...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Watching my eldest son play for his football team for the very last time

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It was Joe's last ever competitive match for Marple Athletic on Sunday. The lads will be dispersing to university, world travel and fa...
Thursday, May 04, 2017

How I voted in the Greater Manchester Mayoral election today

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Today was the Greater Manchester Mayoral election. This has been a long time coming and is an idea that has truly found its time. For me, ...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

Statement on Hazel Grove and my plans for the General Election 2017

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Standing as a parliamentary candidate in my home constituency in 2015 was one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. I w...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Things can only get better - Peter Mandelson at the People's History Museum

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Yesterday was the first day of the 2017 General Election campaign. Twenty years since Labour won so convincingly I had the pleasure to l...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Blackburn Rovers - the despair I can handle, it's the hope I can't stand

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I've never seen ball skills like it. The craft, the dedication and the persistence. And all the more impressive because it was done in...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Top 100 tunes - tears, laughter and triumphs

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I blogged way back in 2011 about my top 100 - my own very male and very anoraky list of my 100 top songs. To make the editing easier -...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

There's no-one left to blame at Blackburn Rovers

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Like most people, I watched most of yesterday's desperately depressing defeat to Barnsley in stunned silence. I said at the end of las...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

Martin Regan RIP

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I was shocked and saddened to be told yesterday that the journalist Martin Regan had died. Even though we had a period of time where we we...
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Walking Dead - enough is enough

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I'm Negan! credit: Andy Westwood The Walking Dead has become a joke, a TV show that has lost its way, ceased to be allegorical or mo...
Sunday, April 02, 2017

We were the future once - our trip to Brighton by the sea

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In the early 1990s our newly built Ewood Park was full, the team were flying and the cry from the opposition fans was always about where w...
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...