Chris Lloyd
Still over the Moon about Apollo
2:55pm Thursday 18th July 2019
“PERHAPS the second most fantastic thing after the Moon visit itself,” said The Northern Echo breathlessly in its editorial of July 22, 1969, “was the fact that we were able actually to see the first man put a foot on the Moon as he was doing it a quarter of a million miles away.”
A roundabout way of celebrating Darlington's history
2:05pm Thursday 11th July 2019
DARLINGTON’S ten-year flirtation with a hamburger is to come to an end in a roundabout sort of a way in September.
Redcar rain falls mainly on Majuba
4:18pm Thursday 13th June 2019
COME and speak to us in sunny Redcar, said the Women’s Institute. Come in flaming June when the days are sunniest and the evenings longest.
The weatherman who put the D into Day
2:55pm Thursday 6th June 2019
DELIVERANCE? Debarkation? Destiny? Decision? Determination? Dooms-? What does the D in D-Day stand for?
Who dares to be the next Tory to tackle Europe, the killer of careers?
5:57pm Friday 24th May 2019
EUROPE has destroyed the careers, and blighted the last years, of every Conservative Prime Minister of the last three decades: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and now Theresa May.
What is Labour's future in the Tees Valley?
12:47pm Thursday 23rd May 2019
WHILE we wait with bated breath for the European election results and for Theresa May to fall, it is worth casting an eye over the smouldering wreckage of the Labour Party in the Tees Valley.
Dapper Derek and the mandarins
5:47am Friday 17th May 2019
FLICKING through a packet of old photographs of the former Bishop Auckland MP Derek Foster for inspiration ahead of today’s memorial service, I was struck at how dapper he was.
Incredible story of Rana whose great escape has come to an end
10:40am Monday 13th May 2019
RANA was my snowy-haired mother-in-law. She happily lived out the last years of her life, into her 91st year, in her “nest” in Hurworth almost incognito, blending into her street of bungalows, quietly keeping herself – and her cat – to herself behind a magnificent magnolia.
Kowtowing to the great god of gout
12:45pm Thursday 2nd May 2019
“IT is disappointing,” said Jeremy Corbyn, turning down his invitation to dine with President Donald Trump, “that the Prime Minister has again opted to kowtow to this US administration.”
Chris Lloyd: Fudge is the taste of the future
12:49pm Thursday 11th April 2019
“IT is,” said the radio presenter at about three o’clock yesterday morning as I listened hazily through my sleep, “a classic EU fudge.” My phone lit up with some breaking news. “Brexit delayed until Hallowe’en,” said a message from the Daily Telegraph, “after fudged EU compromise.”
The cling-clang of the chiffchaff heralding spring
4:09pm Thursday 4th April 2019
AFTER the warmest February on record, March was balmy enough to entice many men who should know better, myself included, to wander out wearing summer shorts.
Chris Lloyd: A shambles is a market - not a common market, but a meat market
10:30am Friday 29th March 2019
IMPASSE, logjam, paralysis, gridlock, standstill, stalemate, deadend. Call it what you will, we are stuck fast.
Peering leaderless into the Brexit abyss – could a second referendum save the day, and Mrs May?
3:54pm Thursday 21st March 2019
THERE are 195 countries in the world. Twenty-three have women leaders.
A little understanding for our MPs
2:01pm Thursday 14th March 2019
THIS week has been as exciting as the opening group stage of the football World Cup. I rush home from work each night, turn on the TV and find myself inexplicably drawn into the drama of an obscure fixture such as Uruguay versus Switzerland. Next night it is something as captivating as Japan versus Saudi Arabia.
After 50 years Harry Mead's weekly column is coming to an end
10:00am Wednesday 13th March 2019
After 50 years Harry Mead's weekly column is coming to an end. Chris Lloyd talked to him about the poetry of the Yorkshire countryside and the prose of our democracy
Is it a codpiece or a callus?
5:47pm Thursday 7th March 2019
WHEN I give my talks, I begin by introducing myself as being someone who writes about quite interesting things like local politics and Brexit and very interesting things like local history.
The last great split - Headline from 1983 gives indication of future for rebel MPs
12:00pm Thursday 21st February 2019
“ICY shoulder for town’s defector MP”, said a headline in The Northern Echo in May 1983 as the Thornaby MP who had split from Labour to form the new Social Democratic Party struggled to get information from Stockton council.
Dunnocks, trollops and tattyboggles
3:16pm Thursday 7th February 2019
THE bird world is in a flap. The dunnock, that drab little sparrow which hangs out in hedges, has been outed as a “trollop”.
Be open and frank: we're scunnered
1:58pm Thursday 31st January 2019
OPEN and frank. Often in this column, I pick on a topical word and try to work out what it means.
Chris Lloyd: What Nissan could learn from the humble snowdrop
7:00pm Thursday 24th January 2019
WINTER has finally gripped my car in its icy grasp this week. Most mornings I’ve had to chip off the frost, both inside and out, while cursing man’s failure to invent a can of de-icer that is not impossibly cold to hold.
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.
Mike Amos
Characterful people and colourful places of the North-East.
Chris Lloyd
Chris Lloyd on a quest to understand today’s world.
Peter Barron
Weekly columns from The Northern Echo's former editor.
Chris Moncrieff
Weekly political comment from Chris Moncrieff.
Julia Breen
Anti-injustice, pro-equality, sometimes ragey.
Ben Houchen
Monthly column from Tees Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen.
Mike McGrother
Encouraging people to talk about mental health.
Mike Barton
Durham Police chief Mike Barton's monthly column on policing.
