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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Proud to be British
Jack Straw tries to save the left from itself. Continue reading
Mili bruv songs
ALWYN TURNER wonders whether anyone still remembers David Miliband. Continue reading
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‘The most degrading and bestial business in the world’
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Tears of autumn: Big Bang and beyond
They went big, then they went bang. DAN ATKINSON considers the dubious reforms that made Britain’s banks what they are today. Continue reading
Proud to be British: Albert Pierrepoint
Hangman Albert Pierrepoint on the British way of death. Continue reading
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Halloween hits: Ain’t It Grand to Be Bloomin’ Well Dead
Leslie Sarony’s 1932 song resuscitated for Hallowe’en. Continue reading
Proud to be British
What made Tony Benn say, ‘I have never been so proud to be British’? Continue reading
This week we have been mostly…
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