Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Sunday 15 August 2010
Row The Boat Ashore?
Can you imagine the BBC getting wrong the name of a leading footballer, pop singer or film star? Nor should it, of course. But it says a tremendous amount that The World Tonight managed to refer to "Michael Groves". There was no correction. Not only the BBC but Radio Four, not only Radio Four but the news, does not even bother to pretend to take him seriously. Nor should it, of course.
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