“If we give them Ostrava , then we give them Germany.” Adolf Hitler once said during WW2. When I arrive in Ostrava, I can’t quite comprehend why he held the city in such high regard. It looks, and feels, like an industrial estate in Milton Keynes in mid-November. It isn't...

Jeremy Corbyn – like him or loathe him - has made politics feel, not only bearable, but exciting to young people.

Bill Passman only got his first passport at the age of 51. This year, after quitting his job as a lawyer to travel the world in 2006, he visited his 100th country in ten years. It was in a hostel in Seville when I first came across Bill. He was...