SIMON MATTHEWS watches Anthony Hopkins as a surrogate James Bond in When Eight Bells Toll (1971). Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2023
Imperial fiction: Blackshirt
ALWYN TURNER on the long-running, if now largely forgotten, thriller hero Blackshirt. Continue reading
Before It Went Rotten
ALWYN TURNER reads about the pub rock of the 1970s. Continue reading
Final Cut: Glenda Jackson
SIMON MATTHEWS pays tribute to Glenda Jackson, award-winning actress and mayor manqué. Continue reading
Brown envelopes
ALWYN TURNER on Mohamed al-Fayed, cash-for-questions and ‘sleazy and disreputable’ Tories. Continue reading
