Final cut: Mr Jones (2019)
A film about George Orwell, Lloyd George, Maxim Litivinov and the Ukraine famine? SIMON MATTHEWS has a look.
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Final Cut: Everybody Loves Sunshine (1999)
SIMON MATTHEWS on one of David Bowie’s lesser known movies. Continue reading
Time takes a cigarette
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Calling all cliches: Lurching to the Right
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Final cut: Now Barabbas Was a Robber (1949)
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The censoring of Sexton Blake
ALWYN TURNER wonders why he’s being protected from the prejudices of Edwardian pulp fiction. Continue reading
Final cut: Children of Men (2006)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches the screen adaptation of PD James’s dystopian novel. Continue reading
Privatising the NHS
Year-by-year fears of NHS privatisation in the Thatcher-Major era. Continue reading
Diane Abbott: a tribute in tweets
How the great and good of Twitter responded to Diane Abbott having the Labour whip withdrawn. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Tunnel (1935)
The special relationship between the UK and USA – on rails? SIMON MATTHEWS investigates. Continue reading
