Esmond Romilly horrified Britain’s Establishment by turning from privileged schoolboy to anti-fascist fighter, writes MAT COWARD

Salty fingers are a MAT COWARD staple and he believes they might be yours too

Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer

Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story

A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism

MAT COWARD recommends a crop that keeps growing well under drought conditions

In 2010, faced with the closure of their local library, a Buckinghamshire town’s locals turned to an unconventional tactic – borrowing every single book – to defend a cherished community space. MAT COWARD tells the story

Tyrannosaurs in Thailand, colonialism as videogame, and a feminist gem from 1936

MAT COWARD looks at the Hamburg parsley — a species rarely cultivated here but popular, with good reason, in Eastern Europe

Good Cop vs Bad Fascist fantasy, a guilty witness, Scottish witchcraft, and Camino de Santiago shocker

While advocating the aubergine or eggplant’s case for a space on your windowsill or patio, MAT COWARD suggest prayers might be required too

After 58 fishermen were lost in the so-called ‘Triple Trawler Tragedy,’ four women led a grassroots revolt that forced the government to overhaul Britain’s deadly deep-sea fishing industry. MAT COWARD tells the story