Grimsby
Austin Mitchell: Always independent
The former Grimsby MP who championed Brexit long before it was popular
Educashun, Educashun, Educashun
The blob is back, and it wants to dumb down the curriculum
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Do we really need population growth?
Population decline need not mean national decline
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
The return of prohibition
In the USA, as in Britain, “public health” is coming for alcohol
