ALWYN W TURNER explores the fear and loathing in Britain’s response to AIDS. Continue reading
Tag Archives: AN Wilson
2018 Politician of the Year (living)
Our not so annual gong goes to the female Boris Yeltsin. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Mr Clutterbuck’s Election
Hilaire Belloc’s political satire from 1908 still works, says ALWYN TURNER. 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
‘Pay your taxes, you scum’
ALWYN TURNER on the Queen’s annus horribilis, including Windsor Castle on fire and Prince Philip on deconstruction theory. Continue reading