Neil Kinnock
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
How Labour lost the “unlosable election”
With living standards in decline, the Tories won in 1992 against the odds. Will this next election be the same?
“I’ll tell you and you’ll listen”: the Neil Kinnock speech that lives on
The moment of pure political theatre that endures its legacy thirty-five years on
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself