In this way we aim to engage local people dealing with their everyday affairs, rather than the stuff of headline writers and party politicians.
Thus, issue 2 challenges our society at its roots by handling commonplace worries: complacent Councils in Burnley and Bradford that cause racism through decades of neglect; greedy companies that try to grab green belt land in Swinton and councils that let them get away with it; cheap labour and stuffed electricians - sacked for fighting for their rights on Manchester's "One Piccadilly Gardens" - another white elephant?; Manchester's decadent food at Selfridges and Bury Black Pudding Market; how a murderer and his hangman sang a duet together; how "anarchist" Professor Noam Chomsky kills his critics; all this and "a farts' progress and the problem of other arses" in the latest issue of Northern Voices!
Brian Bamford (northernvoices@hotmail.com)