apartheid Articles

Barbara Castle could have been Britain’s first female prime minister. Born Barbara Betts in 1910 in Pontefract, her mother was a Labour councillor, her father a tax inspector. She later moved to Bradford, where she attended the girls’ grammar school, before attending...

The great Nelson Mandela embodied the dream of freedom and justice. He will remain not just a figure of struggle for equality for black South Africans and black people around the world but a celebrated unifying figure for all. His life bought people of all races...

One of my early, and, as it turned out, multiple, unsuccessful encounters with girls involved lecturing some unsuspecting sixth-former about why she shouldn’t open her student bank account with Barclays. The reason, as anyone over 40 will tell you, is because Barclays...

A straight-talking Peter Hain accuses the political class of cowardice on party funding and suggests Tony Blair could have won in 2010. By Adam Harrison and Richard Angell Scattered throughout the pages of Peter Hain’s new autobiography is the constant refrain of the...