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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Calling all (historical) cliches: Winters of Discontent
When was the Winter of Discontent? Oh, pretty much every winter in the 1970s. Continue reading
Final Cut: Hampstead (2017)
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rom-com that could have been so much more. Continue reading
Diaries of Somebodies
What are the best political diaries of the last 50 years? ALWYN TURNER knows. Continue reading
Final Cut: Ships with Wings (1941)
‘Get up, you filthy Hun!’ SIMON MATTHEWS watches a 1941 classic war movie. Continue reading
‘Disreputable men’
ALWYN TURNER on reports of Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list. Continue reading
Final Cut: Murder, She Said (1961)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
McDonnell: a tribute in tweets
All mouth and no trousers, or a neo-con shill? Twitter has its say on John McDonnell. Continue reading
Yesterday’s papers: Harry & Class War
‘This bullshit has no bearing on our lives.’ How anarchist paper Class War greeted the birth of Prince Harry in 1984. Continue reading
Final Cut: Beau Brummell (1954)
SIMON MATTHEWS revisits a fictional account of the greatest dandy of them all. Continue reading
‘Read this and get angry’
ALWYN TURNER chronicles the press coverage of immigration 20 years ago, in January 2003. Continue reading
History cops: Endeavour
So what do we learn of British history from watching the period cop show Endeavour? ALWYN TURNER is our guide. Continue reading
Final Cut: The Blockhouse (1973)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Peter Sellers’s 1973 excursion into art-house movies. Continue reading
