The winter of discontent, there was rubbish on the street corners and no electricity. Our house has to back wall (building work halted by the snow). Mum talked about people going cold and hungry to bed. I knew cold and glad I wasn’t hungry too. I asked how those who were cold and hungry could be helped. Mum looked sad and looked at dad. She didn’t know.
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my earliest memory is sat in front of the TV with my mum and brother watching the coalition government being announced. I ask my mum what it meant as I did not understand.
In "earliest political memories"
Staying up really, really late with my mum and my (German) Nan, watching the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were both crying. I didn't understand it all, but I knew it was really important, to us.
In "earliest political memories"
When I was 5 in North Carolina my mum told me to sit while my class did the Pledge of Allegiance. She made me promise never to join in.
In "earliest political memories"
The winter of discontent, there was rubbish on the street corners and no electricity. Our house has to back wall (building work halted by the snow). Mum talked about people going cold and hungry to bed. I knew cold and glad I wasn’t hungry too. I asked how those who were cold and hungry could be helped. Mum looked sad and looked at dad. She didn’t know.