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Tributes pour in for Michael Foot, the Labour legend

Thursday March 04 2010

TRIBUTES flooded in from all sides of politics last night for a former leader of the British Labour Party, Michael Foot, following his death yesterday at the age of 96.

Why Mrs Brown should have skipped the heroics

Sunday October 04 2009

It's weird, living in the land of Gordon Brown, control-freak and squanderer of our taxes. In the satirical magazine Private Eye, he is known as the Supreme Leader, who fortnightly issues a Stalinist Decree.

Trophies still most valuable currency for Fergie

Sunday July 26 2009

T he billboard stands squarely where the road from Old Trafford meets Deansgate, the commercial centre of the city. It shows Carlos Tevez, his arms outstretched above the slogan: 'Welcome to Manchester'.

Grilling the Demon Barber

Sunday June 28 2009

'OH, it's a bad moment and it's going to be bad whatever happens..." Lynn Barber's voice trails off in a trembly way as she contemplates the savagery she has perpetrated on her elderly parents. Not that she feels remorse for exposing their small-mindedness and hypocrisy in her new book. On the contrary, she thought long and hard about what to do -- then did it.

The Thatcher legacy: Iron Lady or right-wing brute?

Tuesday May 05 2009

She was a liberator, and she gave the Labour Party such an intellectual thrashing that they ended up changing their name

Slump reviving 'old' politics

Brendan Keenan Sunday December 14 2008

TRUTH, it is said, is the first casualty of war. Consensus, it would appear, is the first casualty of recession. Why, there are even signs of the return of something which might look a bit like real politics, after the mush of the last 10 years.

Why Brown's grip on leadership is slipping

Monday July 28 2008

For the first time since Margaret Thatcher was booted out by her cabinet colleagues 18 years ago, there is, once again, a woman in charge of the British government this week.

We should not swap our Constitution for Europe's

Saturday May 17 2008

The central issue on which the country will vote in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is constitutional. All other matters, on which we are being peppered with assurances, exaggerations, threats, cajolement and the absurdities that are promised in what will become a tidal wave of posters, are peripheral.

Paul Simonen of The Good the Bad and The Queen (Photo by Matt Kent/WireImage)

Another clash between rock and racism as Paul Simonon returns to the front line

Monday April 28 2008

Thirty years ago, The Clash were in Hackney’s Victoria Park, part of a concert which became a defining moment in Rock Against Racism’s successful stand against the National Front’s late Seventies spread.

My narrow escape from an ambush by the liberal left

Kevin Myers Thursday April 10 2008

We know what 'anti-war' and 'peace' mean in the current argot: it means Yanks out, ie, ditto, yet again