When was the Winter of Discontent? Oh, pretty much every winter in the 1970s. Continue reading
Author Archives: Lion & Unicorn
Final Cut: Hampstead (2017)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rom-com that could have been so much more. Continue reading
Final Cut: Ships with Wings (1941)
‘Get up, you filthy Hun!’ SIMON MATTHEWS watches a 1941 classic war movie. Continue reading
Final Cut: Murder, She Said (1961)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
McDonnell: a tribute in tweets
All mouth and no trousers, or a neo-con shill? Twitter has its say on John McDonnell. Continue reading
Yesterday’s papers: Harry & Class War
‘This bullshit has no bearing on our lives.’ How anarchist paper Class War greeted the birth of Prince Harry in 1984. Continue reading
Final Cut: Beau Brummell (1954)
SIMON MATTHEWS revisits a fictional account of the greatest dandy of them all. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Blockhouse (1973)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Peter Sellers’s 1973 excursion into art-house movies. Continue reading
2022 Politician of the Year (dead)
He worried that he looked like a ghost, but the former 14th Earl could be a model for his slick successor Rishi Sunak. Continue reading
2022 Politician of the Year (living)
He was once voted Britain’s most fanciable MP, and in times of emergency, the cry goes up: Send for Hunt! Continue reading
Final cut: Juggernaut (1974)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a state-of-the-nation movie for a nation that wasn’t watching. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: The most right-wing government
Which of the previous five PMs has led the most right-wing government since the war? Continue reading
