Deira Diary
An account of the UK, and the wider (and sometimes much narrower) world that I inhabit
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Monday, March 29, 2021
A Labour leader with intellect and passion who advocated defence, patriotism and peace
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Michael Foot's reply to Margaret Thatcher in the emergency House of Commons' Falkland Islands debate in April 1982 was the speech ...
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Friday, September 18, 2020
Bury Bus Station and beyond
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I arrived at Manchester Victoria station from the sleepier denizens of Whittle-le-Woods near Chorley. Specifically I’d departed for the big ...
Sunday, February 3, 2019
Sir Harold Wilson and the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool
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We were given a key to the joint entrance to rooms 100 and 101 in Liverpool’s most iconic hotel, The Adelphi . Four years earlier I had onl...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
'V' performed by Jonny Magnanti at the St. Leonard Pub
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Jonny Magnanti is the first actor to interpret Tony Harrison ’s still controversial poem, ‘V’ . Like Tony Harrison, Jonny Magnanti had ...
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