In the early 1970s, when I was aged around 6-7, I remember the issue of immigration rising high on the political agenda. My parents rowed hugely about it, with my […]

My earliest political memory was formed when I was 6 years old, over breakfast. My parents – then paid up PLP members – owned a ceramic egg cup in the […]

I entered an ‘eat 3 cream crackers in a minute competition’ at an SDP rally my dad had dragged me to in 1982. I failed!

Virtual: The TV images from the early PASOK concentrations in Athens. Real: Verbal fights between KKE and Synaspismos tis Aristeras kai tis Proodou militants

I remember that the National (i.e. centre-right) MP for our local area was electioneering, and although my parents were Labour voters my father took me to see him and asked […]