Chris Lloyd
Chris Lloyd: Last call for Teesside call sign
4:07pm Thursday 6th December 2018
WE live in a topsy-turvy world. We see it on a national level, where those who really want to remain in the EU may plunge us into a no-deal abrupt exit, and those who really want to leave may vote against a deal by which we more-or-less leave and so we end up staying forever.
Shooting at a casino leaves four dead in new Darlington movie Sparrowhawk
5:40pm Thursday 29th November 2018
Mike Tweddle's new film makes its hometown debut on Monday in Darlington. He tells Chris Lloyd why Sparrowhawk is more than just a flight of fancy
Death by hairwash: when shampoo fumes proved fatal
5:00am Friday 23rd November 2018
PERHAPS I should be writing about the right-wing’s apparent failure – indeed humiliation – to muster 48 names so Jacob Rees-Mogg can begin the process of ousting Theresa May. Perhaps I should be writing about why the Democratic Unionists think it is acceptable for Northern Ireland to have different laws to the rest of the UK on, say, abortion but not on trade.
Chris Lloyd: Mrs May stood on the burning deck of HMS Deadlock
6:25pm Thursday 15th November 2018
BRITAIN is now in deadlock. It looks mathematically impossible for Theresa May to get her deal through Parliament. There is no majority for her deal, for a no deal exit, for a second vote, for remain, for anything…
Chris Lloyd: Brexit lets the cat out of the bag
3:54pm Thursday 15th November 2018
THE great political drama of the week has been enhanced by some colourful language. Theresa May’s unwinnable deal has been described as “a £39bn pig in a poke” which will turn Britain into a “vassal state”.
Chris Lloyd: Theresa May battling on for her Brexit deal
8:30pm Wednesday 14th November 2018
IT is hard not to feel sorry for Theresa May. She is like the Black Knight in Monty Python’s Holy Grail who keeps getting his limbs cut off but, undeterred, bounces back for more.
In rhyme: the time war declined
3:26pm Thursday 8th November 2018
EVERY day throughout the First World War, The Northern Echo carried an entertaining and poetic advert for Chairman cigarettes tucked away at the bottom of the one of its four pages.
Chris Lloyd: Why some Brits are desperate to find a bit of Irish in them
1:20pm Friday 2nd November 2018
SAY what you like about Brexit but it has been good for genealogy. I’ve met two ladies recently in Darlington library researching their family trees to see if there was enough Irish for them to qualify for an Eire passport.
Cake: Can you have it and eat it?
10:08am Tuesday 30th October 2018
REPORTS of the death of austerity have been greatly exaggerated. Prime Minister Theresa May promised to be killing it off, but after yesterday’s Budget, it is still very much alive, with the effects of eight years of cuts which have gone deep into the quick of Britain’s public services still raising their heads, zombie-like, for years to come.
Warding off the evil spirits of shaggy scalycap
5:48pm Thursday 25th October 2018
HALLOWEEN is coming. In our street, the kids have already put up a “enter if you dare” streamer, and the bright orange pumpkins are being carved into hideous, gap-toothed faces.
Chris Lloyd: Kinetically killed by Darlington's Life Pulse
12:00am Friday 19th October 2018
YESTERDAY, just before 4pm, I thought I was dead. I clasped my hands around the tallest of the five poles which make up Darlington’s Life Pulse and looked up into the beautiful blue sky.
Roadside rioters stop me in my tracks
3:06pm Thursday 11th October 2018
WEDNESDAY was the warmest October day since 2011, but it didn’t feel like it in south Durham as I drove on the A68 which, just north of Darlington, was so shrouded in fog that the headlights turned themselves on.
Opinion: The dead woman still dancing
4:33pm Wednesday 3rd October 2018
IT was in June 2017, after her bodged general election, that Theresa May’s former Cabinet colleague George Osborne labelled her “a dead woman walking”.
Slumbering lions awake to read Mr Corbyn's favourite poem
4:22pm Thursday 27th September 2018
JEREMY CORBYN is a deeply traditional radical revolutionary. With the patched elbows on his jackets, he is often rudely alikened to a geography teacher, but in his speech on Wednesday, he exhibited his knowledge of a broad range of subjects, including history and English.
Chris Lloyd: Conkers and nuts in the eye of a storm
5:26pm Thursday 20th September 2018
STORM ALI has blown through and carpeted our street with a crunchy layer of nuts and conkers.
Opinion: Doing deals with the online devil
10:52am Friday 14th September 2018
THE political conference season has just begun and before the heavyweights have had a chance to take the lectern, the Archbishop of Canterbury has already weighed in with speech of the year.
Cocking a snook at a bender
3:29pm Thursday 6th September 2018
THIS column is obviously diligently planned and meticulously researched. And in the week of a remarkable u-turn, it seemed appropriate to look at the history of the u-turn and then conclude with my favourite phrase from the day that Darlington’s reprieved library was opened.
10 ways to improve Darlington library, including bringing back Fred the Bear
8:30am Wednesday 5th September 2018
EVEN on social media, the almost universal reaction to the news of the u-turn that is keeping Darlington library open has been positive. But after that initial positivity, people say something along the lines of "but I haven't been in there for years…"
How Darlington library is bucking the trendbucking trend
4:03pm Thursday 30th August 2018
A RELAXING holiday for most people still includes a good book with a racey title which is read – devoured even – beneath a parasol by the pool or in a quiet corner in the shade.
Getting hot under the collar about a sad iron
3:27pm Thursday 9th August 2018
THIS week, I’ve had my eye on irons. We’re beginning to pack for our holidays, and so clothes are being chased through the washing cycle so that they can be smoothed by our top of the range, durablade, ultraglide steam iron ready to go in the case.
Strange and trivial fascinations, usually with a historical bent, in a never-ending quest to understand today’s world.
Hannah Chapman
Opinion on the issues of the week by The Northern Echo's editor.
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Chris Lloyd
Strange and trivial fascinations in a quest to understand today’s world.
Peter Barron
Weekly columns from The Northern Echo's former editor.
Chris Moncrieff
Weekly political comment from political correspondent Chris Moncrieff.
Harry Mead
An offbeat view of the week's events and how they affect the region.
Julia Breen
Anti-injustice, pro-equality, sometimes ragey.
Jo Morris
Regular ruminations of a 30-something reporter from Teesside.
Ben Houchen
Monthly column from Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen.
Mike Barton
Durham Constabulary Chief Constable Mike Barton's monthly column on policing.
