What’s been the big economic picture over the last ten years? It isn’t good, says DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Author Archives: Dan Atkinson
Ghosts of Budgets Past
DAN ATKINSON on the very few Budgets that have actually mattered. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Bloody Margaret
DAN ATKINSON revisits some Thatcherite fantasies by Mark Lawson. Continue reading
Polls apart
How seriously should we take opinion polls, wonders DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Train, Train
DAN ATKINSON on a novel from ‘the Other 1980s’. Continue reading
Jelly, ice-cream and tins of Harp
DAN ATKINSON remembers the Silver Jubilee of 1977. Continue reading
Rear-view review: London Dossier
DAN ATKINSON on a book of snapshots of Swinging London, from Guards bands to porn shops. Continue reading
Those were the days, comrades
DAN ATKINSON remembers a golden age of political conferences, from stout to New Zealand pinot noir. Continue reading
Austin Mitchell: The MP for Lost Causes
DAN ATKINSON celebrates a Labour MP who repeatedly backed against the favourite and often won. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Tumbled House
DAN ATKINSON finds sex, plagiarism and libel in a 1959 novel by Winston Graham. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Charlie
Nigel Williams’s 1984 thriller involving trade unions, nationalised car manufacturers, far left politics – it’s a classic of its era, concludes DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Day the Queen Flew to Scotland for the Grouse Shooting
It’s 1968 and England is in a state of civil war. DAN ATKINSON investigates. Continue reading
