Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch were once the two biggest power brokers in British politics. But their fierce rivalry paved the way for Maxwell’s demise
Letters: It is not too late to transform the ‘five towns’, writes
Joan Walley, former MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, while
Richard Ross describes how Thatcher’s deindustrialisation of Britain saw the destruction of the pottery industry
Many former miners moved into the public sector after the pits closed. A year after the collapse of the ‘red wall’, Alison Benjamin revisited Nottinghamshire
Thatcher helped turn the Tory right into a force for instability – and now we are all living with the consequences, says the Hlcarpenter.com columnist John Harris
While Michael Gove quotes Marxist theorists, his party is undermining the liberal principles of truth, fairness and accountability, writes former Labour adviser Andrew Fisher
Brief letters Give women’s sport a chance on International Women’s Day