. . . AND HOW THE RIGHT DIVIDES US I live in one of the hippest areas in the world – according to the San Francisco Chronicle - a district which saw the industrial revolution, then dereliction and now redevelopment. We have both a discount supermarket and a convenience store that stocks Bollinger. Where the [...]
When I first moved to Manchester with my family all I knew was that George Best lived here! In retrospect I think he had already moved on, but he cast a giant shadow. Later I realised that the city was not only the home of football, but of radicalism and of a multi-cultural population which [...]
I live in Ancoats – the world's first industrial suburb – the place that prompted Friedrich Engels to write about the horrors of factory life. It was a place of migrants living in slums, but also a place where young women could make their own living, where trade unions were born and where radicals gathered [...]
My Authentic Life 