Tales from the east. In reverse order …. Colditz, Mariupol and Zinoviev

Thoughts on Labour election hopes, an award-winning depiction of Ukraine under terror and a visit to Colditz

Exactly 100 years ago, Ramsey MacDonald was presiding at his earliest cabinet meetings as prime minister in the first Labour government seen in Britain.

Getting the Conservatives out had been a momentous achievement, but one made possible only by combining electoral support for both Labour and Liberal candidates;