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
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Joe Biden needs a Reagan moment
It is time not just for strong words but for serious demands
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
