Hexham East candidate – Jonathan Wheeler
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Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
THE BOILING FROG OF CLIMATE CHANGE If you put a frog into boiling water, it’ll jump straight out. Whereas if you put it into tepid water and heat it up, the frog will not notice, and passively be boiled to death. Firstly, don’t try this at home. Secondly, it’s not true. It comes from an … Read More
Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
ABOUT TIME WE CLEANED UP POLITICS Owen Paterson, MP In George Orwell’s “1984” Winston Smith is tortured until he agrees that two plus two equals five. The point is to make him see that there is no objective truth other than what Big Brother says is true; to give up on truth altogether. Good citizens … Read More
COP26 – Councillor Holly Waddell, September 2021
On 18 September Councillor Holly Waddell was one of the speakers at the.COP26 Coalition Newcastle March and Rally. By agreement with Scott Dickinson, Holly represented Northumberland Labour and himself as Leader in emphasing Northumberland Labour’s commitment to action on climate change. She spoke about the huge potential of Northumberland in helping meet COP goals and … Read More
The Annual Walk the Tyne for Palestine event – 29 August 2021
This year’s walk was in support of Laylac, who work with children in Dheisheh refugee camp As planned, we met at 1100hrs at The Keelman pub (also known as the Big Lamp Brewery), Grange Rd, Newburn NE15 8NL The walk covers seven miles along the banks of the beautiful River Tyne, and we stopped for refreshments as usual half way. We … Read More
Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Allan Wells. Anthony Joshua. Linford Christie. Chris Boardman. Nicola Adams. Pythagoras. Eliud Kipchoge. Haile Gebrselassie. Nadia Comaneci. All Olympic champions. No, that’s not a mistake, although it’s true that you’re more likely to associate Pythagoras with triangles, rather than the Olympics. Pythagoras didn’t win an Olympic crown for doing difficult sums. He won for boxing. … Read More