Hartlepool
Hartlepool and the dignity of Labour
After losing Hartlepool to the Conservatives, the Labour Party would do well to take heed of Jon Cruddas’s new book
The Hartlepool Declaration
How much impact will Farage’s retreat really have?
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
