Super League at 25: The unfinished revolution?
As Super League celebrates its 25th birthday, rugby league is further away from its founder’s vision than ever.
Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’
Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?
Class matters: why rugby league players don’t receive knighthoods
Despite a mass public campaign, Kevin Sinfield hasn’t received a knighthood this year. It comes as no surprise to rugby league fans
The nation’s favourite: why Coronation Street matters
As Coronation Street celebrates its diamond jubilee, is it time to take it seriously as the chronicler of our times?
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
“I’ll tell you and you’ll listen”: the Neil Kinnock speech that lives on
The moment of pure political theatre that endures its legacy thirty-five years on
The lost world of Rugby League
A new book celebrates 125 years of rugby league but shines a light on a world that the sport has left behind
1945 at 75: Labour’s Very Reasonable Revolution
Anthony Broxton looks back on the election win that Labour now aspire to
Fifty years on: the battle to elect Britain’s first black MP
Dr David Pitt’s experience is now largely forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
Is Boris Johnson the John Major of our day?
Anthony Broxton investigates the similarities between two political scandals