Grimsby
Austin Mitchell: Always independent
The former Grimsby MP who championed Brexit long before it was popular
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
