Final cut: Mr Jones (2019)
A film about George Orwell, Lloyd George, Maxim Litivinov and the Ukraine famine? SIMON MATTHEWS has a look.
Latest Entries
Our Man in Malaga
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rediscovered British account of the Spanish Civil War that eclipses Orwell. Continue reading
Me and baby brother
PAUL SAFFER revisits the memoirs of Terry Major-Ball, older brother to a former Prime Minister. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #1: Robert Kilroy-Silk
From 1983, it’s Kilroy’s dystopian vision of 2020. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
Imperial nonfiction: Boys’ Heroes
ALWYN TURNER reads the books that inspired his granddad. Continue reading
‘Smashing things’
Do you remember when the Left was split between generations? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
Never too Sunak
Rishi Sunak has risen without trace. How should Boris Johnson respond, wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Revive 45: July 1975
ALWYN TURNER revisits more of the music of his childhood: 10cc, Mud, Gary Glitter, the Top of the Pops Orchestra… Continue reading
Revive 45: bonus trax 2
Mike Batt, Paper Lace, Mr Big, the Surprise Sisters & many more. ALWYN TURNER rounds up some failed 45s from 1975. Continue reading
‘Looking for vibrations’
BEN FINLAY on Glastonbury, visions of Albion and the underground press. Continue reading
Camden and the North
David Storey’s 1960 novel, Flight Into Camden, revisited by SIMON MATTHEWS. Continue reading
Sporting comebacks II
PAUL SAFFER on how sport came back with renewed purpose after its suspension in WW2. Continue reading
Sporting comebacks I
As sport returns from its spell on the bench, PAUL SAFFER looks at how it came back after World War I. Continue reading
