PAUL SAFFER watches the Beatles, Clement Attlee and David Frost on the BBC election coverage. Continue reading
Author Archives: Paul Saffer
Election night highlights: 1997
PAUL SAFFER celebrates the top ten TV moments of election night 20 years ago. Continue reading
Sulk and pout
Political winds not blowing your way? PAUL SAFFER looks at those who slipped down the greasy pole with a good old sulk. Continue reading
Bits of Britpop: Part 5
PAUL SAFFER celebrates the sounds of Eggman, Edward Ball, McAlmont & Butler and Me Me Me. Continue reading
Hooligan anarchists and the fine arts
PAUL SAFFER on the lessons today’s Lib Dems can learn from their forebears. Continue reading
Stuck in the middle and blue
The quick blue Fox jumps over the Labour dog. PAUL SAFFER on the marginal Midlands. Continue reading
Trump v. Corbyn: The quiz
PAUL SAFFER sorts the wheat from the chaff, the sheep from the goats, and the Trump from the Corbyn. Continue reading
Bits of Britpop: Part 3
PAUL SAFFER celebrates music by Sleeper, The Other Two, Helen Love and Kenickie. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 8: David Bond
PAUL SAFFER on a champion so obscure that even his workmates didn’t know he’d won gold. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 7: David Cecil
PAUL SAFFER’s series continues with a hurdler fictionalized in Chariots of Fire. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 6: Hugh Edwards and Lewis Clive
From the Bullingdon Club to the International Brigade – PAUL SAFFER on a coxless pair. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 5: 3rd Earl of Kimberley
PAUL SAFFER on the polo-playing missing link between Bertie Wooster and Winston Churchill. Continue reading
