Buddy Holly: the British album
Twelve British cover versions of Buddy Holly songs, selected by ALWYN TURNER.
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Time to part? How I shall be voting
DAN ATKINSON explains where he’ll be putting his cross in the referendum. Continue reading
Rigger mortis
Will the referendum result be fixed, like it was in 1992? Continue reading
Calling EU cliches: The Big Sleepwalk
Everyone from Michael Gove to Michael Portillo (via Jacques de Cock) is worried about nocturnal wandering. Continue reading
Project Fear: How I shall be voting
ALWYN TURNER explains where he’ll be putting his cross in the referendum. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Eye watering
From knicker-shredding to the Black Death, the media are becoming increasingly lachrymose. Continue reading
Noisy neighbours: Nationalism and sport in the UK
PAUL SAFFER explores sporting rivalries between the constituent nations of the UK. Continue reading
The language of Blajorism
Spelling out Tony Blair’s debt to John Major at the heart of Europe. Continue reading
Referendum ad nauseum
ALWYN TURNER predicts the outcome of the vote. Look away now, if you don’t want to know the result. Continue reading
Missing voices and opportunities
ALWYN TURNER on Angela Eagle on the EU referendum. Continue reading
‘No longer two nations but one’
In an exclusive extract from his new book, ROGER HERMISTON tells the story of the astonishing Franco-British Union plan of 1940. Continue reading
Articulate, glamorous and patronising
Some perceptions of the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in 2010. Continue reading
‘May the Lord bless you real good’
Billy Graham’s 1954 London Crusade (the ‘Salvation Army plus sex’), remembered by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
