Η πρώτη μου πολιτική μνήμη είναι η εξής: όταν ήμουν στην πρώτη δημοτικού η αδερφή μου πήγε στο κατηχητικό και της άρεσε πολύ (τους μοίραζαν σοκολάτες και καραμέλες και έλεγαν […]

I was raised by rather unpolitical parents; politics hardly were a topic at the dinner table. My earliest political memory is the fall of the German wall when I was […]

My earliest political memory, though very distant and somewhat undefined, is the civil war in Yugoslavia when I was 7-8 years old and the eventual breakup of the country. I […]

Collecting baked beans and nappies outside Chelmsford sainsburys for striking Kent miners. Some of those miners lived with us when they were on trial after the strike ended. Terry French was […]

I have two early political memories. I think what stands out for me is why they still resonate and the significance of the place/time that the memories evoke. The first, […]

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 […]