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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Obscure Olympians 7: David Cecil
PAUL SAFFER’s series continues with a hurdler fictionalized in Chariots of Fire. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 6: Hugh Edwards and Lewis Clive
From the Bullingdon Club to the International Brigade – PAUL SAFFER on a coxless pair. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Gonna make you a czar
From happiness and the seaside, to poverty, pubs and toilets, there’s a czar for everything. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 5: 3rd Earl of Kimberley
PAUL SAFFER on the polo-playing missing link between Bertie Wooster and Winston Churchill. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 3
ALWYN TURNER on 1992-2007, the days when Labour leader and prime minister weren’t mutually exclusive jobs. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 4: Arnold Jackson
PAUL SAFFER on a war hero, Versailles negotiator and founder of the Kentucky Derby, who also won 1500m gold. Continue reading
Bits of Britpop: Part 2
ALEX SARLL remembers some gems from Kingmaker, Telstarr, Elcka and Echobelly. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 3: City of London Police
PAUL SAFFER celebrates a team of flat-footed Edwardian tuggers. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 2: CBK Beachcroft
Continuing his salute to forgotten British Olympic heroes, PAUL SAFFER remembers a cricketing comedian. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 2
Continuing ALWYN TURNER’s history of the post-war Labour Party, seen through leadership elections past (1976-88). Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 1: Launceston Elliot
In the first of a new series, PAUL SAFFER salutes a weightlifting, rope-climbing, sprinting holder of the British discus record. Continue reading
Labour leadership elections: Part 1
ALWYN TURNER’s history of the post-war Labour Party, seen through the ghosts of leadership elections past 1955-63. Continue reading
