we’re going to have a new generation of nuclear power stations. The sites have just been announced. The news made me think immediately of what Zac Goldsmith said to me, when I interviewed him ahead of his standing as a Conservative candidate for Richmond. Here’s an extract: ‘I wouldn’t live near a nuclear power plant,’Continue reading “'The Conservative position is, in my view, a no to nuclear power' So will Zac Goldsmith press his own nuclear button now?”
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June Brown, all alone in Dot Cotton’s kitchen
Strike a light, this is strange. Dot Cotton is in her kitchen, sucking on a fag and talking into a tape machine, recording a message for her husband, Jim, who is paralysed and unable to speak after a stroke. The hardest thing, she says in a trembling voice, “is the thought of you being there…Continue reading “June Brown, all alone in Dot Cotton’s kitchen”
‘I’d prefer my mother still to be alive’ Peter Mandelson
He’s very cool, Lord Mandelson of Hartlepool and Foy. In the sense of never getting over-heated. Except this time. ‘You may think it’s funny and cheap to make snidey remarks about how I could afford to live where I do. If my mother had not got Alzheimer’s and hadn’t died, I wouldn’t be able toContinue reading “‘I’d prefer my mother still to be alive’ Peter Mandelson”
‘Are you saying God is a myth?’ The Archbishop of Westminster
I find it hard to be lectured on sex by a celibate, but then I’m not a Catholic. Isn’t it just possible that everything he does is based on self-deception? That there was no God nagging him on the terraces and his calling was just the fretting of a teenage boy overwhelmed by hormones andContinue reading “‘Are you saying God is a myth?’ The Archbishop of Westminster”
‘I grew up in a war zone. I know how lucky I am’ Nemanja Vidic
You expect arrogance from the captain of Manchester United, Nemanja Vidic, a lavishly paid football star and one of the best defenders in the world. But you don’t get it. ‘Am I late? Five minutes. I’m very sorry. Here I am.’ Vidic arrives in a massive Mercedes SUV with tinted windows, of the sort that usually hasContinue reading “‘I grew up in a war zone. I know how lucky I am’ Nemanja Vidic”