Hate watch: Poirot
Which episode of Poirot fails to please BEN THOMAS’s little grey cells?
Latest Entries
‘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
Calling all cliches: History will judge…
Who knows how history will judge Brexit? These people do… Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Beetle
ALWYN TURNER reads a Victorian tale of gender-fluid horror. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Second Spring
DAN ATKINSON on a novel haunted by memories of the war. Continue reading
Crisis? What crisis?
ALWYN TURNER on James Callaghan’s little local difficulty in 1979. Continue reading
Thank you for the Day
PAUL SAFFER on Robin Day, the always-humble Grand Inquisitor who gave us BBC’s Question Time. Continue reading
Revive 45: January 1974
ALWYN TURNER on the music that took us into the 3-day week in January 1974. Continue reading
2018 Politician of the Year (living)
Our not so annual gong goes to the female Boris Yeltsin. Continue reading
