Suffragette City (Tuesday 06/02/2018).
The things you thought you'd never say. "Must dash - I promised the children I wouldn't be late for the suffragette march!" For most, The Representation of the People Act 1918 isn't a gripper. We file it away with constituency boundary changes and electoral expenses. It hasn't been a hotly debated topic in the snooker halls and drinking establishments of the nation for precisely a century but when it was, there was blood on the cobbles. It was genuinely a seismic shift in British politics when the old world of privilege and fob watches got robustly hand bagged by the new. Had there been a passing omnibus from which to alight, the historical echo would have been complete but, despite this, we all managed to rendezvous at the march which started somewhere near the top of Park Street in Bristol. It was a sizeable gathering at the heart of the Georgian Establishment despite the driving snow and biting wind. I found Jane and the children huddled in the...