"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".
Monday, 6 June 2011
That Word
Jacques Chirac once called Margaret Thatcher a "con". He had not meant it kindly or politely. But he, a very good English-speaker, was still baffled at the amount of fuss.
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