EARLIER today in a telephone conversation with a friend he commented that he thought his local MP was ‘a bit of a deadleg’ . Now I’ve not...

WHO'S JUMPING JAB LINE-UP FOR VIRUS IN ROCHDALE? NICK STATHAM of the local Rochdale democracy service, in last Saturday's Rochda...

Is ROCHDALE Becoming Queen Of The Rotten Boroughs? EDITORIAL NOTE: PRIVATE EYE may yet award Rochdale the prize of the 2020 Queen of the...

by Les May NOT two names you would ever expect to see together, but as I was reminded when I read the somewhat garbled story by Jenn...

by Les May I BELIEVE that Rochdale Council is tainted by institutional racis m .  I rest this claim upon the fact that its members...

by Les May L ast Wednesday 23 October my local paper, the Rochdale Observer , carried a report of an incident in which a tree surgeo...

Dear Councillor, I am writing to you not as a representative of a political party, or of a particular ward, or because you ha...

by Les May TWO days ago The Guardian columnist Yomi Adegoke wrote: ‘ The silence surrounding the Duchess of Sussex’s treatment...

How much freedom of speech do we really have? John Wilkins THIS article summarises the problems a local campaigning group BOLD (Buildi...

by Les May FORGIVE me for asking, but is it just possible that Donald Trump has taken control of the GMP City Centre Twitter page?   I...

NV EDITOR:      A 'Cheap Jack' according to one English dictionary is described as  'A seller of cheap inferior goods, typi...

by ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’ A COUPLE of years ago the Rochdale Observer published a report of a march by one of those three i...