Author of Memoirs of a Spacewoman, proofreader of Lord of the Rings, co-author as a kid of Reduplication in Mice - and honestly, that's just scratching the surface of Naomi Mitchison's astonishingly full life, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

Reviews of Samir Machado de Machado, Salman Shaheen, Keri Beevis, Ken Bruen and Jason Starr in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crime-…

The Loughton Lopper, an illiterate labourer arrested for cutting firewood, is the reason Epping Forest still exists - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

Jack Sheppard, the prison-escaper who became such a hero to the poor of London that a century later it was illegal to portray him on stage - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

The 15th baronet who became a Liberal MP then a Common Wealth MP then a Labour MP then an independent MP then a school teacher - and donated his vast estates to the National Trust, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

When the English government's scheme to finance an invasion of France led to armed rebels mustering in Suffolk - and who the king blamed when it all went wrong, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

Reviews of Michael Connelly, Michael Z Lewin, Louise Penny, J Jefferson Farjeon, in the Morning Star's crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crime-…

"Written by Reds, Under the beds, Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood!" The 18th century eccentric who "invented" the noble bandit, and the American communists who reinvented him, in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

His name was Bonzo, he was a WWI hero who had to be smuggled out of military hospital by his secret wife, he was one Britain's best-known ornithologists & a founder member of the Communist Party. I don't say it's likely, I just say it happened: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

At least when Lord Liverpool suspended habeas corpus he had the guts to announce it. Starmer and Lammy have done it secretly, knowing that the tame media won't question them.

10% of Earth's workforce works for co-ops, hundreds of millions of people. It began with 6 sacks of flour, 2 dozen candles, 1 sack of oatmeal, 2 bags of sugar and 22 pounds of butter, in Rochdale, Xmas 1844. This week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

An absolutely damning judgement against the charity which brought this case against Reginald D Hunter accusing it of using the criminal justice system for its own ends to try to get him cancelled

When the writer of 'Jerusalem' went on trial for saying "Damn the King!" Irony, madness, sedition and tygers - in this week's Rebel Britannia: rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap the foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it.

Venezuela has oil. Greenland has rare Earth minerals. Luckily Iceland has only volcanoes, glaciers, and very average cricketers.

Preparing for the end of the world - by overthrowing the government. Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchy Men, in this week's Rebel Britannia rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…

The BBC News (UK) beggars belief

The Onion never misses.

Reviews of Sam Frances, Jim Kelly, Chris Nickson, Lynne McEwan in the Morning Star crime fiction column: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/crime-…

"Peer's son weds typist" - the extraordinary life of Ivor Montagu, pioneer of British cinema, titan of international table tennis, friend of Trotsky and admirer of Stalin, possibly a Soviet spy and definitely an expert on voles, rebelbrit.substack.com/p/rebel-britan…