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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Sir Keir and the Heart of the Matter
Sir Keir Starmer – he’s all heart, you know. Continue reading
Old Faithful (& other 1970s sex aids)
ALWYN TURNER shares some letters from Forum magazine in 1970. Expect honey, steak and vacuum cleaners. Continue reading
George Orwell and the Whirligig of Fame
ALWYN TURNER reviews books on Orwell by Dorian Lynskey and John Rodden – one of them good, the other very, very bad. Continue reading
Fun and games with Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell left a dark legacy, but PAUL SAFFER remembers a lighter moment from his assault on public life. Continue reading
Looking for a New England
From The Stud to Absolute Beginners, Simon Matthews’s new book rounds up music movies of the 1970s and ’80s. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
‘It was everything I feared’
From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Tumbled House
DAN ATKINSON finds sex, plagiarism and libel in a 1959 novel by Winston Graham. Continue reading
Will you still love me tomorrow?
ALWYN W TURNER explores the fear and loathing in Britain’s response to AIDS. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Charlie
Nigel Williams’s 1984 thriller involving trade unions, nationalised car manufacturers, far left politics – it’s a classic of its era, concludes DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
This is not America
In foreign affairs there’s only one question that matters: Are you on the right side of history? Continue reading
2020 Politician of the Year (dead)
Boris Johnson has chosen the wrong lodestar. He should look to an earlier wartime premier. Continue reading
2020 Politician of the Year (decomposing)
The return of our award for the politician throwing it all away. Continue reading
