By Will Barber Taylor Superman is sadly often viewed as a dull figure. He’s the big yellow cheese, the superhero that started the whole industry off but one who is too bland to bother being interested in. …

By Will Barber Taylor Religion is a core part of who many people are. Our beliefs are often as intertwined with the way we act and how we act. As such, for a politician, the religious beliefs that are held can help to form policy and decide the outlook by…

By Will Barber Taylor It is perhaps, some might suggest, presumptuous to suggest that the 1952 senate race between Henry Cabot Lodge and John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the most significant race to occur in the long history of Massachusetts — some might argue that such an honour goes to the…

By Will Barber Taylor It is inevitable that any political leader will, if they last long enough, face a test that will define their time in office for posterity. For some, that test is economic — how they deal with the threat of poverty to their people. For others that…

By Will Barber Taylor This piece is a selection of profiles I wrote some time ago for a project that never came to pass on the slave owners who lived and were associated with the town of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. …

By Will Barber Taylor Today marks sixty years since leaders of two of the greatest superpowers of their day sat down to discuss the future of the world. They were polls apart — one with a vibrant, youthful and energetic politician recently elected President of his country by a thin…

By Will Barber Taylor The Labour Party has not won a General Election since 2005. It is 15 years since Labour won a general election and ten years since it has been in office. These are the stark realities that face the Labour Party currently. It is unfortunate that these…

By Will Barber Taylor The judgement of a politician’s influence, whether in their lifetime or after it, is complicated. Anyone who knows anything about politics will know that people in power get derided, abused and mocked. Satirising and complaining about politicians is as old as politics itself — you only…

By Will Barber Taylor Detectives, particularly those that are most recognisable to us, are not often from working class backgrounds. Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, Albert Campion, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence, the list is nearly endless of classic detectives. Yet, the majority of the most recognisable detectives…