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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‘I see nothing wrong with rock ’n’ roll, but…’
Cyril Smith didn’t approve of schoolchildren dancing to rock music, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Dickson McCunn & Co.
ALWYN TURNER on the continuing adventures of John Buchan’s heroes from the Gorbals. Continue reading
Shine on, Harvest moon
BEN FINLAY celebrates the label that gave us Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayres, Roy Harper and, er, the Third Ear Band. Continue reading
Brexit and the beautiful game
From Derek Dougan to Gary Lineker, PAUL SAFFER finds plenty of footballers who won’t kick the big issues into the long grass. Continue reading
Revive 45: February 1974
ALWYN TURNER remembers the music from the days of Harold Wilson’s third election victory. Continue reading
The battle of Jenkins’s heirs
Where is the Independent Group heading? Is it the SDP Mk II? Blair’s Babes? Or David Davis revisited? Continue reading
An experimental plane
Some first thoughts on the Independent Group. Continue reading
‘A posh lot’: The birth of the SDP
ALWYN TURNER remembers the SDP – ‘the party of the future’, according to Barry from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Black Beauty
ALWYN TURNER on Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel of good horses and bad masters. Continue reading
Proud to be British
What kind of thing made young people proud of Britain 40 years ago? Continue reading
1989: The roots of Brexit
ALWYN TURNER on how the fall of the Berlin Wall allowed the rise of Euroscepticism in Britain. Continue reading
Album of the week: Clockwork Carousel
ALWYN TURNER listens to a great debut by a bucolic British rock band. Continue reading
