Buddy Holly: the British album
Twelve British cover versions of Buddy Holly songs, selected by ALWYN TURNER.
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Is this Britain’s worst radio presenter?
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the self-proclaimed windbag David Mellor. Continue reading
Peter Oborne and the kiss of death
Is Oborne’s approval the beginning of the end for a party leader? Continue reading
‘It was not a happy period’
Is it really deja vu all over again? Some quotes from the Labour Party in the early 1980s. Continue reading
‘A long time in politics’: Blowing hot and cold on the Autumn Statement
DAN ATKINSON wonders if George Osborne is channelling Supermac. Continue reading
This week we have been mostly…
A selection of the writing, wittering and viewing that has caught our attention over the past week. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Binary questions
And today’s word is ‘binary’. That’s ‘binary’. Continue reading
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
This week we have been mostly…
A selection of the writing, wittering and viewing that has caught our attention over the past week. Continue reading
‘The most degrading and bestial business in the world’
Remembrance hasn’t always been a pageant of national unity. ALWYN TURNER reveals how the British state once feared its veterans. Continue reading
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
