Hate watch: Poirot
Which episode of Poirot fails to please BEN THOMAS’s little grey cells?
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Final Cut: Alf’s Button Afloat (1938)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches the Crazy Gang and wonders whether they’re still funny. Continue reading
‘The street fighting was excellent’
ALWYN TURNER on the riots of the early 1980s. Continue reading
Final Cut: Four Dimensions of Greta (1972)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches Robin Askwith, Richard O’Brien and Leena Skoog in a 1970s sexploitation pic. Continue reading
‘This way for the cuts’
A Labour government facing a rebellion over benefits cuts? Surely we’ve been here before, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
‘Cathedrals are cathedrals’: the first 25 years of Talk Sport
From Caesar the Geezer to Covid, via the Two Mikes and the mighty H&J, ALWYN TURNER celebrates TalkSport radio. Continue reading
Final cut: Hammerhead (1968)
SIMON MATTHEWS on the one movie excursion of Charles Hood, a wannabe James Bond. Continue reading
Rishi Sunak: an obituary
So farewell, then, Rishi Sunak. ALWYN TURNER on yet another departing prime minister. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Election elephants
There’s a whole herd of elephants in the room in this general election. Continue reading
No more Portillos
PAUL SAFFER remembers the great Portillo Moments and warns that there won’t be any in this general election. Continue reading
Polls apart
How seriously should we take opinion polls, wonders DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Final cut: Yellowbeard (1983)
Ahoy, shipmates! SIMON MATTHEWS has things to say about Graham Chapman’s pirate movie, Yellowbeard. Continue reading
Final Cut: Manuela (1957)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches a prime piece of colonial fiction from just before the Winds of Change. Continue reading
