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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
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
What makes an American?
What characterises a US citizen in the 21st century, beyond abiding by the country’s laws and supporting its constitution?
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Towards an allied civil society network in Europe
The Trump Administration is turning its attention to Europe’s civic institutions
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna