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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‘The new chosen one’ – Laura Pidcock
Laura Pidcock MP: a career in 41 quotes. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland
ALWYN TURNER goes back to 1923 to read about Sapper’s other great hero. Continue reading
‘A disciplined comrade’ – Richard Burgon
Richard Burgon MP: a career in 40 quotes. Continue reading
Labourites in the vineyard
ALWYN TURNER remembers complaints in the 1980s about Tony Benn and ‘the elitism of activists’. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Sanders of the River
ALWYN TURNER on Edgar Wallace’s cynical tales of colonial administration from 1911. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Huntingtower
Is this 1922 novel John Buchan’s best thriller? ALWYN TURNER thinks so. Continue reading
Eddie Amoo: Man Without a Face
The late Real Thing singer in his own words. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading
Galloping paralysis
‘Can you imagine nations trembling at the thunderings of a person called Mogg?’ Continue reading
Darkest Hour: The kindness of history
After watching Darkest Hour, ROGER HERMISTON reflects that one man’s dramatic licence may be another’s historical distortion. Continue reading
