Austin Mitchell: Always independent
The former Grimsby MP who championed Brexit long before it was popular
The vindication of Paul Embery
The judgement will go down as one of the great working-class victories of our time
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
