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1. 1. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 October 2009 THE date: May 7, 2010. The place: Bolton town hall. David Cameron stands on the steps as Britain's new prime minister.  According to the latest opinion polls - with the Conservatives on 41 per cent, Labour on 30 per cent, and the Lib Dems on 17 per cent - that is precisely the scene that will greet the nation in just over seven months' time.

2. 2. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 22 September 2009 THE Liberal Democrats are in some ways closer to power than ever before. Labour appears a busted flush, but the British people are not yet convinced by David Cameron. It is quite possible that Mr Clegg will hold the balance of power in a hung parliament. The odds are currently around 5/2

3. 3. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 29 September 2009 TO the people of Brighton going about their lives, it probably looks like any other Labour conference. The faces are the same, the hotels are still packed, and the bars are doing a roaring trade. Keep up to date with all the latest news for the Labour Party Conference in Brighton

4. 4. Comment: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 March 2009 So `sliming' a leading politician is actually a feminist issue. And here was me thinking it was just a juvenile stunt.

5. 5. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 July 2009 DESPITE all the regeneration going on in the city centre, Manchester's status as one of the most deprived places in Britain has barely changed over the past two decades.

6. 6. David Ottewell on Brown's biggest speech

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 30 September 2009 THIRTY minutes to the biggest speech in Gordon Brown's life, and the omens are not good.

7. 7. Opinion: David Ottewell

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 April 2009 "WITH this government, the dial is hovering alarmingly between 'stasis' and 'decay'."

8. 8. 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.

9. 9. 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.

10. 10. 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.

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