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1. 11. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 11 January 2010 WHAT kind of assassination attempt leaves the ‘victim’ healthier than before? The latest polls suggest the bungled plot to oust Gordon Brown last week has not damaged the government as much as some commentators including me would have guessed.

2. 12. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 June 2009 THESE are dark days indeed. The north west awoke on Monday to discover it had elected Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right BNP, to one of its eight seats in the European Parliament.

3. 13. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 December 2009 ONLY connect, wrote the novelist EM Forster. Just imagine what he’d have made of Twitter.

4. 14. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 25 August 2009 ACADEMIC discrimination used to be a simple business. Cambridge and Oxford colleges would pack their hallowed halls with hugely disproportionate numbers of private-school pupils, and left-wing politicians would howl at the injustice of it all.

5. 15. David Ottewell: Why “drifting” David Cameron is still in shadow of the Iron Lady

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 09 January 2012 Bad policies may sometimes bring a prime minister down. But a complete absence of policy, a sense that a government is simply drifting on, without principle or purpose: that is always fatal.

6. 16. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 04 August 2009 "Harriet Harman hasn't helped anyone she claims to champion with her latest outburst - not women and certainly not the Labour Party."

7. 17. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 June 2009 "A vote for the BNP is not a protest vote..... It is a vote against human decency."

8. 18. David Ottewell: The cuts – protest with wisdom, not violence

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 March 2011 Street fires are lit in Piccadilly, Nelson’s Column sprayed with anarchist graffiti, bank windows smashed. Outside the Ritz hotel, a young man – hood down, beer can in one hand – hurls himself boot-first at a door, cheered on by colleagues drunk on their own naughtiness. Later, when all is finally quiet, 214 people will have been arrested and 84 injured.

9. 19. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 08 February 2010 Will the anger over 'expensesgate' lead to seismic shifts in places like Salford, or will it prove to be a storm in a (taxpayer-funded, bone-china) teacup?

10. 20. Opinion: David Ottewell

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 05 April 2010 The campaign should herald the roar of three well-oiled party machines, instead it will be the splutters of three backfiring old bangers.

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