National Union of Mineworkers
The Miners’ Last Stand
Fifty years ago, the miners took on a Conservative Government and won
Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?