The Sentinel – Growth in business, both big and small, is needed.
We might have rising fuel prices, declining wages, one million young people unemployed and a cost of living crisis, but apparently Britain’s economic recovery is well underway.
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Daily Mail ‘smear attack’ on Ed Miliband’s father is not based...
CLEARLY, they do not read much Marx or Engels at the Daily Mail. If they did, then it might have seemed more plausible to them that a committed socialist could also harbour a soft spot for the British...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – I feel honoured to have been given education role.
Asked what his three priorities in government would be, Blair replied ‘Education, Education, Education.’ But it was the gifted French historian Jules Michelet who put it more eloquently. “What is the...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – We can’t give up on ‘failing’ northern cities and that...
In the aftermath of the Toxteth riots in 1981, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Cabinet debated abandoning Liverpool altogether. Worried about the heavy public cost of refloating the city, Chancellor...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Nuclear deal with China a depressing example of how far we...
In the first verse of the Analects, his book of proverbs and teachings, the Chinese philosopher Confucius asks: "Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar?" Whether he would have felt quite...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Hungarian horror story is a testament to our creativity
SITTING outside Szanto College in Hungary 1982, Richard Pekar, the founder of the North Staffordshire Hungarian Association, was about to hear something incredible. Because it was there, 25 years...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Talents of nimble-fingered potters can be used to improve...
‘It was the work of seconds. At one moment a wet, grey lump of clay would be slapped on to the fast rotation of the wheel. As his left hand kept it centrally poised, the right hand, a large, strong...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Wretched jobs blow for city is short-sighted failure by firm
THE fact that so many members of staff had seen it coming did not make the announcement any easier to accept. There had been growing demands by management to help with training up administrative...
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Nelson Mandela
the ability to describe the anguish of Apartheid in such crystal clear language was just one of the many prodigious political gifts bestowed upon Nelson Mandela.
View ArticleThe Sentinel – Arts funding is weighed to heavily in London’s favour.
When J.B Priestley visited Stoke-on-Trent on his celebrated ‘English Journey’ in 1934, he tried his hand at ‘throwing’ a vase at the Wedgwood factory in Etruria. It is fair to say he lacked the skills....
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