William Cobbett recalls his first taste of classic literature, for which he had to go without his supper.

Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.

William Cobbett makes a distinction between everyday business and the murky world of Westminster lobbyists and financial speculation.

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.