ALWYN TURNER confesses to having written the Official Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto for Screaming Lord Sutch. Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
Keir Starmer: an obituary
As another prime minister bites the dust, ALWYN TURNER bids a less than fond farewell. Continue reading
‘I could whip you’: the Falklands War
ALWYN TURNER on the political and cultural fall-out from the Falklands War, from Alan Bennett to Del-Boy. Continue reading
‘Hard as nails’: Ann Widdecombe
An extract from ALWYN TURNER’s book ‘A Classless Society’, on Ann Widdecombe in the 1990s. Continue reading
Referendum: Ten years after
Was it all about imperialism? ALWYN TURNER on the Brexit referendum, a decade after the fact. Continue reading
Last night on YouTube: Yesterday’s Men
FINLAY McLAREN watches Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Denis Healey in a controversial 1971 programme. Continue reading
For whom the bells toll: Emily and X
How the people of X responded to Emily Thornberry ringing bells for Pride month. Continue reading
Andy Burnham: a football man
Andy Burnham, as seen by ALWYN TURNER in 2015. Continue reading
Immigration: 60 years of manifesto pledges
The pledges made on immigration by every incoming government from Harold Wilson to Keir Starmer. Continue reading
10 years in the life of the LibDems
JONATHAN CALDER on the fall and rise of the Liberal Democrats over the last decade. Continue reading
Remembering the Referendum Party
The most important article on James Goldsmith’s Referendum Party you will ever read – by PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Last night on YouTube: Parkinson
FINLAY McLAREN watches Kenneth Williams and Jimmy Reid going at it (ooh matron). Continue reading
