Exhumed from the vaults for Halloween, here’s a 1911 song by Billy Williams. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
‘A sinister, if gifted buffoon’
SIMON MATTHEWS on Aleister Crowley – magician, poet and 73rd Greatest Briton. Continue reading
‘As if to take the piss…’
ALWYN TURNER on the FA Carling Premiership, Fever Pitch and the realisation that everything had gone wrong. Continue reading
The death of Lymeswold
ALWYN TURNER remembers the late unlamented cheese, 30 years on from its passing. 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
More than snooker
SIMON MATTHEWS on the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, built when levelling up included experimental drama. Continue reading
Halloween hits: Brahn Boots
A Stanley Holloway classic, resuscitated for Hallowe’en. Continue reading
Seven-year itch
ALWYN TURNER attempts to identify social trends via the medium of online pornography. Continue reading
‘Batty, bananas or bonkers’
ALWYN TURNER on celebrities and mental illness in the Noughties. Continue reading
‘A bodice-ripping period drama’
Costume drama or fly-on-the-wall documentary? ALWYN TURNER revisits Downton Abbey. Continue reading
Neither Nottingham nor Algeria
SIMON MATTHEWS on Britain’s most radical political novel. Continue reading
‘What is the BBC for?’
Sachsgate, Kittengate, the Queen ‘losing it’ – the BBC had a difficult few years, reflects ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
