Socialism

Revolution now and then

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Maxim Gorky was trumpeted as ‘the great proletarian writer’ by Soviet critics, who considered his novel The Mother one of…

Map of the Island of Utopia, book frontispiece, 1563

Lessons from Utopia

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Thomas More’s 1516 classic is a textbook for our troubled times, says William Cook

Socialist Cluedo

19 September 2015 8:00 am

What a load of manipulative, hysterical tosh is An Inspector Calls. It wasn’t a work with which I was familiar…

The right choice

2 May 2015 9:00 am

When election day dawns, it’s worth bearing in mind that two million more people will be going to work than when…

The British public is about to make a big mistake

2 May 2015 9:00 am

On the weekend of 25 April 2015 I started to believe that the party I supported might not win an…

A lone Crusader declares holy war

14 March 2015 9:00 am

In 2011, Anders Breivik murdered 69 teenagers in a socialist summer camp outside the Norwegian capital of Oslo, and eight…

‘A screaming, grievance-hawking shambles’

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Welcome to feminism in the age of intersectionality

A dogged opportunist

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Of a dashing political rival, François Mitterrand once remarked: He was more intelligent than I was, he thought faster than…

Union man

16 November 2013 9:00 am

Can George Galloway keep Scotland in Britain?