Author: Lyndsey Skinner
The media’s fascination with Theresa May’s dancing is a fig leaf for the government’s incompetency
Another day, another bone-scorchingly uncomfortable video of the Prime Minister doing the rounds.
Youth unemployment in the 80s: remembering Tyneside photographer Tish Murtha
Amid the clouds of smoke, dust and ash of the photograph are two partially obscured figures.
Review: Wildflower, Newcastle
Newcastle’s vegan and veggie community has been spoilt for choice over the past couple of years. For the discerning herbivore, the options just keep multiplying.
“I was determined not to wee in a bush”: Northern Soul’s Lyndsey Skinner tackles the Great North Run
“To be honest, I’m knackered.”
Tall Ships Regatta, Blyth 2016: Northern Soul finds its sea legs
I’m the first to admit that I know very little about ships.
Preview: Ground Control to Major Tim, The Late Shows, Newcastle
So far, 2016 has been a year of events with earth-shattering proportions, the kind of things that send you scurrying from your breakfast cereal and Louise Minchin’s solemn face in the BBC studios to the colossal global natter of the World Wide Web.
Review: Murder on the Nile, People’s Theatre, Newcastle
Crimes of passion. Glamour. Menace. Intrigue. Slim cigarettes, cocktails and pussy bow blouses. Exotic-sounding European names, dubious French accents, Lords, Ladies and business tycoons.
Review: Mog on the Tyne, Newcastle
As the 21st century gets into its stride, it seems that cafés serving merely coffee and cake no longer cut the mustard.
The Splendour of Jesmond Dene
When the sunlight is thrown in a certain way through horse chestnut tree leaves, I am reminded of all the times that I’ve been an aspiring cyclist.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley talks to Northern Soul
The telephone purrs ominously in my hand. I swirl the last dregs of lukewarm coffee at the bottom of the cup while sitting cross-legged on my desk chair, and stare at the pile of press releases and hand-written notes in scratchy blue biro on my desk.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
Are you an individual or an organisation based in the North of England? Why don’t you come to this year’s Northern Soul Awards? It’ll be a brilliant evening – 15th November at Manchester Cathedral. Tickets available here: https://awards.northernsoul.
The Northern Soul Poll
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