Arthur Scargill Articles

Thirty years after Neil Kinnock’s Bournemouth speech, Robert Philpot recalls the fight to save the Labour party from the hard left In September 1985, two years after Neil Kinnock was elected its leader in the wake of the devastating landslide defeat which saw Margaret...

Labour politicians sometimes suffer from a deficiency of the eustachian tube: the conduit that connects the nose with the brain. When they smell power their memory goes. This is certainly the case with Jeremy Corbyn when he presents himself as an irenic figure anxious...

There are lessons for today in the defeat of the miners’ strike which began 30 years ago next month This year marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the miners’ strike. Most people aged 40 or younger will have little or no personal recollection of that dramatic...

The dividing lines the Tories are drawing are false but powerful Those glued to BBC Parliament over the Easter bank holiday watched the 1983 election played out in real time. The longest suicide note in history. Arthur Scargill and the Militants. Hapless media...