Paul Foot on Tony Benn in the LRB : For nearly a century, Labour MPs have been going to Parliament to change the world, but have ended u...

"I've known many times," says the Doctor, "some of them much more pleasant than others." "Well, I quite like ...

I'm currently re-reading George Orwell's best book Homage to Catalonia .  It's one of those books I re-read every few years. I...