1970 General Election
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.
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
Chopping The Onion
It is neither brave nor clever to portray dissenting women as insane
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false