Hate watch: Poirot
Which episode of Poirot fails to please BEN THOMAS’s little grey cells?
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Sutch is life
ALWYN TURNER confesses to having written the Official Monster Raving Loony Party manifesto for Screaming Lord Sutch. Continue reading
Have you heard… Bronco
BEN FINLAY celebrates Jess Roden’s great country-rock band Bronco and their early-1970s albums. Continue reading
Keir Starmer: an obituary
As another prime minister bites the dust, ALWYN TURNER bids a less than fond farewell. Continue reading
‘I could whip you’: the Falklands War
ALWYN TURNER on the political and cultural fall-out from the Falklands War, from Alan Bennett to Del-Boy. Continue reading
Have you heard… Family
BEN FINLAY offers an introduction to the music of prog-rock band Family. Continue reading
‘Hard as nails’: Ann Widdecombe
An extract from ALWYN TURNER’s book ‘A Classless Society’, on Ann Widdecombe in the 1990s. Continue reading
Final cut: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
SIMON MATTHEWS celebrates a big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s steam-punk pastiche. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Who’s Really Who
DAN ATKINSON revisits a compendium of people who really mattered in 1980s Britain. Continue reading
Referendum: Ten years after
Was it all about the Empire? ALWYN TURNER on the Brexit referendum, a decade after the fact. Continue reading
Last night on YouTube: Yesterday’s Men
FINLAY McLAREN watches Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Denis Healey in a controversial 1971 programme. Continue reading
Summer: the album
Some mellow selections for balmy days, chosen by BEN FINLAY. Continue reading
Decade: Line of Duty (2021)
In which FINLAY McLAREN begs Britain not to switch off the box in the corner. Continue reading
