National hero
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
What makes a hero?
Today, our heroes are demi-gods with superhuman powers, genius detectives and, painful though it is to admit, activists
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
Breaking the mould
The closure of the Denby pottery factor is an example of short-term political thinking
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
