John Dickie-Northampton's dissenting voice

Forty odd years in the local politics of Northampton has brought very few insights and even less understanding of the beast we know as local politics-but from the town that gave the world Bradlaugh-what the hell!

Sunday, 27 December 2015

The world turned upside down-reprise!

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Another year approaching and another feeding frenzy.Without doubt the next few months will be concerned about only two things,the bloody EU ...
Sunday, 6 December 2015

Sometimes things get nasty.

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It goes with the territory, politics can sometimes be nasty,brutish and short!It is always possible that someone will not agree with you (he...
Sunday, 22 November 2015

With so many critics-You must be doing something right!

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Hysteria takes many forms.The events in Paris last week revealed the extent of hysteria and has in fact played directly into the hands of a ...
Saturday, 24 October 2015

Why Hollywood does not understand 'the Suffragette

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The film 'Suffragette' opened in this country to widespread acclaim. Despite however having Meryl Streep in it all for 90 seconds Am...
Sunday, 4 October 2015

To understand oppression is to be a Jew.

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It would appear today that the actress Maureen Lipman has left the Labour Party once again, she left it a few months ago but it seems,well a...
Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Suddenly Northampton's not such a nice place

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A decent young Labour Councillor Gareth Eales published a straightforward appeal for compassion for the refugees . Nothing unusual you migh...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

I bet the Labour party never knew it had so many friends !

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All my experience in the Labour Party led me to one conclusion-what we needed most was a mass party,ideally of young idealistic people who w...
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John Dickie
For 30 years I followed the teaching trade.For the same 30 years I was also a Labour Councillor on Northampton Borough Council.For ten of those years I was leader of Council.On leaving council(all 30 years representing castle ward) I went to WarwickBusiness School and completed a masters in Public Administration(MPA) which included a stint at the Kennedy School of Governance(Harvard) and Georgetown Univ. I was also for a number of years a partner ina small export orientated business.Now I write weekly for the Northampton Chron & Echo and do a little supply teaching when the mood takes me. Have been married almost 40 years to Marie- who left school at 15 and now has a PhD. and was Chair of Northants Police for over a decade and has worked nationally in a number of policing roles.Marie was awarded a well deserved OBE in the 2008 New Years Honours.
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