South
Shields, Tyne and Wear, North-East England. Place of my birth, place I still
divide half of my time between.
Place
that voted to leave the European Union by 62% to 38%.
This
blog, which takes its name from a famous phrase once well-known and commonly
heard in the town, will be a home for long-form, multidisciplinary journalism,
attempting to unravel a frequently-heard maxim: “The politicians of this town
are out of touch with the ordinary person”.
