The Pirates rage against political sloganeering. (‘Don’t it make you wanna puke?’) Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
‘Close to tears’: Tories and disability
ALWYN TURNER remembers a Tory government in conflict with disabled people in the 1990s. Continue reading
A Sunday kind of love
Remembering the government’s defeat over Sunday trading in 1986. Continue reading
Abducted: A restoration mystery
ALWYN TURNER explores a seventeenth century X-file. Continue reading
Reg Presley and the Zulus from Mars
The Troggs singer shares his thoughts on crop circles, UFOs and millions of gallons of missing water. Continue reading
Might as well face it, they’re addicted to ads
Wasn’t the government going to slash its advertising budget? ALWYN TURNER bemoans the return of the Whitehall nag. Continue reading
We Rule: Part 3
ALWYN TURNER finally gets to the end of his round-up of female vocal duos in British pop. Continue reading
We Rule: Part 2
ALWYN TURNER continues a trek through female vocal duos, reaching the 1980s. Continue reading
Kneller Hall: The trumpets still sound (just)
As the Royal Military School of Music faces closure, ALWYN TURNER remembers a previous attempt to sell it off. Continue reading
We Rule: Part 1
ALWYN TURNER celebrates female vocal duos in British pop during the 1960s and ’70s. Continue reading
‘Politics is not like shopping’: A press portrait of Hilary Benn
ALWYN TURNER looks at the career of the man once tipped to be Labour’s next leader. Continue reading
Pick of the Pops: ‘Song for the British Working Class’
Cornelius Cardew, a British disciple of Enver Hoxha, stiffens our sinews. Continue reading
