This is not America
In foreign affairs there’s only one question that matters: Are you on the right side of history?
In foreign affairs there’s only one question that matters: Are you on the right side of history?
Nigel Williams’s 1984 thriller involving trade unions, nationalised car manufacturers, far left politics – it’s a classic of its era, concludes DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Boris Johnson has chosen the wrong lodestar. He should look to an earlier wartime premier. Continue reading
The return of our award for the politician throwing it all away. Continue reading
The best of all school stories? ALWYN TURNER thinks it might be. Continue reading
Was Wyatt’s fiction as colourful as his diaries? wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
A neglected 1930 song by Charlie Higgins, exhumed for Hallowe’en by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
ALWYN TURNER reads Bram Stoker’s second-best-known novel – and finds there’s a steep fall-off after #1. Continue reading
Do you remember Papa’s Got a Brand New Bagpipe? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
Mayor Sadiq Khan: a career in 55 quotes. Continue reading
ALWYN TURNER on Charles Mansford’s ‘most unpleasant’ school story, published in 1896. Continue reading
PAUL SAFFER remembers the unlikely media career of Derek Jameson. Do we mean him? We surely do. Continue reading
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