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It's difficult to appreciate how, just three years ago, the Conservative Party was the pivot around which British politics turned. These...

Every time Laura Kuenssberg interviews anyone newsworthy, her goal is to generate "controversy" rather than shed light on a topic ...

Pavane is one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Often billed as the best exercise in alternate history, it exemplifies e...

Many things have been written about Herve Le Tellier's The Anomaly . One of those pesky science fiction novels passing itself off as a m...

To lose one councillor is careless. But 23 ? Since his unfortunate faux pas last week where Keir Starmer went on the record and backed Isr...

The Church of England, it used to be said, was the Tory party at prayer. Inbetween the pews and the pulpit, this was the place tens of thou...

Another evening, another break from writing I'm sorry to say. But there's always plenty of good stuff worth viewing. Such as this No...

The BBC called it "extraordinary". In reality, Tuesday's Taliban press conference was pretty banal. The media in this country ...

I couldn't wait for next month's new left media plug to share this. Lives on the Left is a new project by Paul Simpson looking at we...

Raise land, lower land is basically all you need to get a handle on. Yes, that's Populous . Think back to a time before the internet, ...

Theresa May could never make a likely feminist, as we see with her attitude to abortion in Northern Ireland. In response to pressure from ...

Sometimes you come across games that are hard to write about. Such is the lot of video game writing . Take 1991's Gynoug for instance (...

NB aspiring politicians, the breakfast sofa and cosy chat could spell curtains for your career. Believe me, their croissants and coffee aren...

What is going to happen to the United Kingdom Independence Party? Not many people care any more. Since they were broken at the Stoke-on-Tren...

It takes chutzpah to suspend national campaigning and then give a political speech about Saturday night's terror attac...

That numb, helpless anger you feel when a group of innocent people have been murdered in another jihadi attack. This is quickly followed b...

Our last Sociology Research Seminar Series session at the University of Derby saw Andrew Wilson present his recent conference paper, 'Th...