An unlikely morning star

PAUL SAFFER remembers the unlikely media career of Derek Jameson. Do we mean him? We surely do. Continue reading →

Revive 45: September 1975

ALWYN TURNER looks at the charts from 45 years ago and finds Mike Batt, Roger Whittaker and Leo Sayer – but mostly it’s Kenny. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: The Secret of the League

ALWYN TURNER on ‘a fabulous book, sometimes thriller, sometimes satire’ from 1909. Continue reading →

Revive 45: August 1975

Delilah, Barbados and the rough end of a pineapple – the charts were odd in August 1975, reflects ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading →

The Ambling Alp in London

Italian boxer Primo Carnera got namechecked in the 1930s by PG Wodehouse and Sandy Powell. ALWYN TURNER explains why. Continue reading →

Our Man in Malaga

SIMON MATTHEWS on a rediscovered British account of the Spanish Civil War that eclipses Orwell. Continue reading →

Me and baby brother

A relation of a statesman with a tell-all memoir: PAUL SAFFER revisits Terry Major-Ball, the anti-Trump. Continue reading →

Novelist MPs #1: Robert Kilroy-Silk

From 1983, it’s Kilroy’s dystopian vision of 2020. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading →

Imperial nonfiction: Boys’ Heroes

ALWYN TURNER reads the books that inspired his granddad. Continue reading →

‘Smashing things’

Do you remember when the Left was split between generations? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading →

Never too Sunak

Rishi Sunak has risen without trace. How should Boris Johnson respond, wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading →

Revive 45: July 1975

ALWYN TURNER revisits more of the music of his childhood: 10cc, Mud, Gary Glitter, the Top of the Pops Orchestra… Continue reading →