ALWYN TURNER on a home-front comedy from the Great War. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Lenin on the goalpost
Long before the 2018 World Cup, a Radio 4 sitcom explored the links between Russia and football, says PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Carry on Brexiting
Is Danny Dyer heir to the legacy of Kenneth Williams? asks PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Richard Hannay
ALWYN TURNER celebrates John Buchan’s most famous character. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Carson Was Here
DAN ATKINSON on Anthony Carson, the Pooter of travel writing. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Madonna of the Barricades
Karl Marx, Madame Tussaud & Paris in 1848? It must be a novel by the editor of the Spectator, says ALWYN TURNER.
‘Making socialists want to vomit’
BEN FINLAY on Jezza, Jagger and sleepy London Town. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Father Pig
DAN ATKINSON on a novel of generational warfare. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Power-House
ALWYN TURNER on John Buchan’s first classic, the book that introduced Edward Leithen in 1913. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Red House
DAN ATKINSON on a Cold War tale of a doubting communist. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Take the War to Washington
DAN ATKINSON on a bonkers Vietnam-era novel by Peter van Greenaway. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Mr Clutterbuck’s Election
Hilaire Belloc’s political satire from 1908 still works, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
