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In 2001, Tony Benn, one of the most influential socialist politicians in Europe, retired from the British House of Commons after almost 50 years in politics, to 'devote more time to politics'. One of the ways in which he carried out his resolution was to write a series of weekly columns for the Morning Star, a British socialist daily newspaper.

These columns reflect the breadth of Benn's political concerns, covering both domestic and international politics, and the best of them have been collected here. Benn writes with a controlled passion about the Labour party (old and new), the...

Plan your best ever Mediterranean, European or Baltic cruise. Come with me on a preview of 26 shore excursions to give you a personalized glimpse of what to expect - and what NOT to expect. Each is a brief snapshot of how I was treated, what I saw, what was missing and my recommendation - or not Each is typical of the shore excursions that your cruise ship will offer you. And there are lots of my colour photos too. Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Rome, Copenhagen, Corfu, Helsinki, Ibiza, Istanbul, Ephesus, La Coruna, Le Cinque Terre, Mont-St-Michel,...

Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River in 1884-1885. Chosen becuase of their outstanding skills as boatmen and river pilots, they formed part of the Canadian Voyageur Contingent, which transported British troops on a fleet of whaleboats through the Nile's treacherous cataracts in the hard campaigning of the Sudan War. Their objective was to reach Khartoum, capital of the Egyptian province of Sudan. Their mission was to save its...

Native peoples played major roles in the War of 1812 as allies of both the United States and Great Britain, but few wrote about their conflict experiences. Two famously wrote down their stories: Black Hawk, the British-allied chief of the still-independent Sauks from the upper Mississippi, and American soldier William Apess, a Christian convert from the Pequots who lived on a reservation in Connecticut. Carl Benn explores the wartime passages of their autobiographies, in which they detail their decisions to take up arms, their experiences in the fighting, their broader lives within the...

Since the 1960s, Britain's politicians have been promising equal educational opportunities for all but consistently failing to deliver. Now, with the rise of academies and free schools, new forms of inequality and discord afflict the nation's classrooms. The Coalition Government is further fragmenting and privatising the nation's school system, making a mockery of their claims to promote social mobility.

In this coruscating analysis of the games politicians play with our children's futures, Melissa Benn puts forward a genuinely comprehensive vision and points the way to restoring the...