Tony Benn Articles

This past week I was lucky enough to have a ticket for London’s biggest ‘nostalgia’ show. I had bought it because I wasn’t there the first time around and wanted to experience some of the star power and excitement from all those years ago. In the end I gave my...

My grandfather died two years ago this week. He was one of my heroes, but I have got to be honest: he was a career doctor. From his late teenage years and throughout his time at university, everything he did – even his year as a sabbatical officer at the student union...

Ed Miliband's announcement on the referendum question has in equal parts been been overanalysed and misinterpreted. Strategically he has no interest in, and no intention of, holding an in-out vote on the European Union. Why on earth should he? This issue splits the...

The worst possible insult that can be paid to the life of Tony Benn is to turn him into a national treasure. On the morning of his death, people were queuing up to praise his courtesy, politeness and conviction. That is how the establishment sanitises its opponents:...