Hate watch: Poirot
Which episode of Poirot fails to please BEN THOMAS’s little grey cells?
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Recrudescence: British Twitter on Donald Trump
A record of how the re-election of Donald Trump as US president was received by British commentators on Twitter. Continue reading
Final Cut: Of Time and the City (2008)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Terence Davies’s rumination on the Liverpool that was. Continue reading
Ghosts of Budgets Past
DAN ATKINSON on the very few Budgets that have actually mattered. Continue reading
‘We are sorry’
ALWYN TURNER on the time that Tony Blair apologised for slavery. Continue reading
‘Mystery among the muffins’
Miss Marple doesn’t really belong in Swinging London, concludes ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Final Cut: He Snoops to Conquer (1944)
George Formby’s up to his tricks in politics, and SIMON MATTHEWS is there to see him. Continue reading
Farewell to the Girls
ALWYN TURNER mourns the decline of the Dagenham Girl Pipers, the band that Hitler coveted. Continue reading
Final Cut: the index
Your A-Z guide to SIMON MATTHEWS’s movie reviews from 80 years of British cinema. Continue reading
Sausages: an anthology
ALWYN TURNER selects some passages from British literature that concern sausages. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Exception (2016)
SIMON MATTHEWS is impressed by a movie with Christopher Plummer as the Kaiser and Eddie Marsan as Himmler. Continue reading
The retail Altamont: the fall of Biba
60 years since the Biba boutique opened its doors, ALWYN TURNER remembers its fall. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Bloody Margaret
DAN ATKINSON revisits some Thatcherite fantasies by Mark Lawson. Continue reading
