- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
THE BOILING FROG OF CLIMATE CHANGE If you put a frog into boiling […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
ABOUT TIME WE CLEANED UP POLITICS Owen Paterson, MP In George Orwell’s “1984” […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Allan Wells. Anthony Joshua. Linford Christie. Chris Boardman. Nicola Adams. Pythagoras. Eliud Kipchoge. […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Cooperation is what makes humans special. Just look at the vaccine roll out. […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Talent was in the North East last week, along with Hollywood fever. The […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
When we talk about transport there are two questions. First, what transport system […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
From B&Bs in Berwick to micro pubs in Newcastle, small businesses across our […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Town planning is as old as cities. The Romans did it. In fact, […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Most political leaders get to choose their cabinets – local authority leaders, Scottish […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
There’s something rotten in the state of Britain. In 1963, Cabinet Minister John […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
Stewart Lee was once given some advice on how to earn a living […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
The notion of a job for life is fast receding. Not so long […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
I just about remember the TV show ‘When the Boat Comes In’. It […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
The death of Nigel Todd I have a packet of Northumberland Wildflower Seeds […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
When I was a ward councillor for Monument – Newcastle City Centre – […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
In 1929 the Roaring Twenties plummeted to earth with the Wall Street Crash. […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
As a political insider, not much in politics shocks me. But I was […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular updates
BUILD BACK FAIRER Sunday February 28, 2021 “Build Back Better” has become the […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update – video
The climate emergency.
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
“Shall we meet online or in real life?” This increasingly common question speaks […]
- Keir Starmer was mistaken yesterday
The North of Tyne was given the target of creating 10,000 jobs over […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Did you know the 2nd February is Groundhog Day? At this very moment […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Is 24-hour rolling news really unprecedented? Do you remember when you were a […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Democracy is a powerful idea. Everyone gets an equal say, no matter your […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
January, it’s said, is named after the Roman god Janus. He’s depicted having […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Real wellbeing requires abundant green and blue spaces The places where we live […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
21 December 2020 2020 has definitely been a challenge and made us all […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
It’s said that the distance between the Government and Opposition benches in the […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Are metro mayors properly scrutinised? That’s a question I was asked at last […]
- Jamie Driscoll’s weekly update
The new series of The Crown has started on Netflix, covering the 1980s […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
The North East’s rail network has an unusual geography. We’re almost an island […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Sunday November 1, 2020 On September 18th, the North East’s council leaders and […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Jamie Driscoll’s ‘week-in-a-minute’ for week commencing 1 November 2020 is here:
- Mayor Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
A Million Reasons to Act … Unprecedented times demand unprecedented measures. That’s the […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
This week the Mayor talks about the combined action of northern mayors in […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Jamie is interviewed by Sky TV on Saturday 10 October 2020. Here he […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Our socialist mayor’s latest update on the week. Jamie has been busy – […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
Boilers on prescription might not sound like an obvious link to radical devolution. […]
- The Mayor launches one-minute weekly highlights
My highlights from last week, in under a minute: pic.twitter.com/NOuH5iOH7g — […]
- Now is the perfect time for a Green New Deal
Unemployment is the worst of the economic scourges. Pundits obsess about debt-to-GDP ratio, […]
- Jamie Driscoll, North of Tyne Mayor’s regular update
How would you feel if someone broke the law, took £480 of your […]
- ex-Tory Deputy PM, Michael Heseltine — bigging-up Metro Mayors?
I was listening to radio last week, and on came Michael Heseltine, bigging-up […]
- “Please sir, I want some more.” – what does Oliver Twist have in common with the North?
Oliver Twist sums up the relationship between central government and the North. There’s […]
- This U-turn government
Politicians are terrified of U-turns. They look indecisive. 200,000 kids have had to […]
- Culture
Culture is the sum total of how we express ourselves as humans. Culture […]
- North of Tyne Mayor, Jamie Driscoll’s weekly column in The Journal and The Chronicle
Why is it that when someone supports #BlackLivesMatter, someone replies, “All lives matter!” […]
- North of Tyne Mayor, Jamie Driscoll’s weekly column in The Journal and The Chronicle
Billionaires are not inevitable (18-05-20) “Our secret superpower is our ability to cooperate”. […]