THE FANTASTIC HOPE

Briggflatts by Basil Bunting is one of the great poems of the twentieth century, though it has not always occupi...

Hi. I’m Dan Hodges. And I tell it like it is. Like. It. Is. If you believe everything you read on Lefty Twitter you’d think tha...

1. ‘Corbyn is on the ballot for the Labour leadership election: but he’ll never win’ 2. ‘Corbyn is doing well in the Labour leadership e...

I'll be leaving London in a few weeks to return to the Motherland (Newcastle), so thought I'd compile a LONDON TOP 10 based on my n...

At the very least, the 2015 election is an interesting rebuttal to Peter Mair's notion that Western democracy is 'hollowing out...

Well well well, treatments of the Oasis book are now coming in thick and fast ... First up, David Stubbs wrote an excellent long-form rev...

Well friends the Oasis book has finally emerged from the primordial swamp and is now available from at least some good bookshops in the UK ...

Perhaps because the football season ended so anti-climactically this weekend, the north-east of England has since taken a diversion into so...

This Saturday! Myself and the incomparable Tamar Shlaim will be hosting the Zero stall 10-5. Blog here . Come doon.