"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".
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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