In 1942, my father, Percy, son of a printer from London’s East End, met my mother Mary, an artist and a Sussex landgirl, in an army canteen where Mary volunteered. […]

Drawing a sign for a demonstration against nuclear energy with my mother in the aftermath of the chernobyl disaster. My mother asked me, what my problem with the current situation […]

The first activism about unfairness I can remember was at age 6 having an argument with the Headteacher about which parts of the playground should be in or out of […]

Age 4. I remember holding a banner on a protest in support of the workers’ strike on an electrical power plant in Tripoli, Greece. My father was one of the […]

I was 11. It was a blissfully sunny English summer day and I was laying on the lawn. My Mam and Aunty were teasing me about my ‘boyfriend’. My Aunty […]

While I could say seeing on TV the shooting of JFK in 1963 (when I was 9years old) was the first time I became aware of politics, the first time […]

My earliest political memories are of the Heath government, though I cannot be precise about the elements, except I clearly remember the three day week, the power cuts, and joining […]

I can date this to some time in 1947, when I was five. I was at a local Labour Party meeting in South Devon with my mother, and pretty bored. […]

Από διηγήσεις των γονιών μου, οι οποίοι και οι δυο ως φοιτητές άνηκαν σε αριστερά φοιτητικά κόμματα (ΕΚΚΕ, Ρήγας Φεραίος) να έχω πάει μαζί τους σε ηλικία των 2 ετών […]

I recall seeing John Major speaking to cameras outside Parliament; the main impression on me was of the flash of the cameras.