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!

Saturday, 30 April 2016

Labour and anti-Semitism revisited

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Since my last post the issue of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has reached a level of hysteria that clearly is no longer an issue of Oxfo...

Sunday, 10 April 2016

The Labour Party and anti-semitism

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The 'Mail on Sunday' is a newspaper,no,it is not a 'newspaper' it is at best a comic and at worst a salacious journal of mi...

Sunday, 20 March 2016

The silent man-for six long years.

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There is a danger as the Tory party collapses into a heap of nothingness that some are tempted to see Ian Duncan Smith as some sort of marty...

Saturday, 5 March 2016

Time for the people to sing

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There appears to be a debate developing about national anthems in this land of ours.It would appear that the main concern is what the people...

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Nothing changes-everything stays the same

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It is all to common for commentators and spin doctors and those clever people who are now called 'moderates' in the Labour Party to ...

Tuesday, 26 January 2016

It's a lesson too late for the learning ?

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A curious mixture of melancholy and excitement fills my sleeping hours and most of my waking ones too. last night instead of counting sheep...

Monday, 11 January 2016

A wind of change blows up from St.James

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Who would have believed it ? On a damp Saturday afternoon in January in downtown St James Northampton over 200 folk gathered to hear a Labou...

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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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