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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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The vibe shift is a myth
Far from living through an age of cultural rebellion, we are seeing the imposition of cultural conformity
The end of Peel’s police?
She invokes a vanished age of policing, but Shabana Mahmood’s reforms point towards a more continental model of policing
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Varro and wide
The Romans had no doubt who their greatest intellectual was — the astonishing polymath Marcus Terentius Varro.
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Farage: I’m not worried
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves