From Derek Dougan to Gary Lineker, PAUL SAFFER finds plenty of footballers who won’t kick the big issues into the long grass. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
The battle of Jenkins’s heirs
Where is the Independent Group heading? Is it the SDP Mk II? Blair’s Babes? Or David Davis revisited? Continue reading
1989: The roots of Brexit
ALWYN TURNER on how the fall of the Berlin Wall allowed the rise of Euroscepticism in Britain. Continue reading
Thank you for the Day
PAUL SAFFER on Robin Day, the always-humble Grand Inquisitor who gave us BBC’s Question Time. Continue reading
2018 Politician of the Year (living)
Our not so annual gong goes to the female Boris Yeltsin. Continue reading
This Is (not) Tomorrow
SIMON MATTHEWS on a new book by Martin Gayford – and how politics killed British art. Continue reading
‘Stupid boy’: Hague as leader
A weak leader, an ageing party, bitter divisions over Europe – ALWYN TURNER remembers William Hague’s Tories. Continue reading
‘Mad, literally mad’
ALWYN TURNER on the extraordinary figure of Enoch Powell. Continue reading
Diana and the hacks
ALWYN TURNER remembers how the death of Princess Diana was covered in the media. Continue reading
Election night highlights: 1987
Esther Rantzen, George Galloway and Mars bars – it must be the BBC election coverage, says PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Election night highlights: 1964
PAUL SAFFER watches the Beatles, Clement Attlee and David Frost on the BBC election coverage. Continue reading
1997: The legacy
ALWYN TURNER on the missed opportunities of the New Labour government. Continue reading
