A Glittering Malice

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This is about life on a council estate in the county borough of Bootle in North Liverpool during the 1960s-1970s with the spectre of penury looming heavily over the family home. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The love of grandparents and the memories that last a life time of going abroad to the Isle of Man to the struggles of teenage years and family breakdown. Of best friends of street football games adventures far and wide. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Of a failed eleven plus of paper rounds and school days and corporal punishment meted out on a daily basis. Through the violence and racism of the late 1960s early 1970s and adolescence. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Tales of building work and trade union awareness unemployment and nearly thirty years of political representation. </strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Of the legal profession and mental health services a life so varied and one of fighting social injustice and racism from a lowly apprentice to a first citizen of a metropolitan authority.</strong></p>