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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited