Hate watch: Poirot
Which episode of Poirot fails to please BEN THOMAS’s little grey cells?
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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
Imperial fiction: Goodbye, Mr Chips
The best of all school stories? ALWYN TURNER thinks it might be. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #2: Woodrow Wyatt
Was Wyatt’s fiction as colourful as his diaries? wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Halloween hits: In the Waxworks Late Last Night
A neglected 1930 song by Charlie Higgins, exhumed for Hallowe’en by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Lair of the White Worm
ALWYN TURNER reads Bram Stoker’s second-best-known novel – and finds there’s a steep fall-off after #1. Continue reading
Revive 45: October 1975
Do you remember Papa’s Got a Brand New Bagpipe? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
‘I’m quite cool’ – Sadiq Khan
Mayor Sadiq Khan: a career in 55 quotes. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Bully, Fag and Hero
ALWYN TURNER on Charles Mansford’s ‘most unpleasant’ school story, published in 1896. Continue reading
