Cuba, despite the privations, remains a beacon of sovereignty and resistance to imperialism, writes BERNARD REGAN
ON Saturday, Unite the Union general secretary Len McCluskey will be delivering the inaugural Tom Maguire Lecture in the beautiful surroundings of Chapel FM Arts Centre — a unique community venue in a spectacularly converted Methodist Chapel — on the Seacroft estate in East Leeds.
Before delivering the Memorial Lecture, I will be joining Len to lay flowers on Maguire’s grave in Beckett Street Cemetery, opposite St James’s Hospital.
I decided to establish an event in memory of Maguire because he was a real Leeds labour and trade union movement hero.
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
‘Honest’ Tom Wharton’s 1682 drunken rampage through St Mary’s church haunted his political career, but his satirical song Lillibullero helped topple Catholic James II during the Glorious Revolution, writes MAT COWARD



