Danny Scott

The Undisputed King of Selston by Danny Scott is published by John Murray Press, available in hardback, eBook and audio.

Is Labour trying to make life harder for poor kids like me?

From our UK edition

Bridget Phillipson and I have a lot in common. Like the Education Secretary, who started life in a council house in Tyne and Wear, I grew up on a tough estate. Mine was in Selston, a rural East Midlands mining village. Home life was hard; my mam was blind and illiterate. But against the odds

The truth about the 1984 miners’ strike

From our UK edition

On 6 March 1984, I found myself smack-bang in the middle of the largest industrial dispute in post-war history. As the son of a fifth-generation miner whose bedroom window looked out onto Pye Hill Pit in Selston – the remote Nottinghamshire mining village I called home – I couldn’t help but be caught up in