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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Halloween hits: Our House Is Haunted

Culture

Halloween hits: Our House Is Haunted

Posted on 31 October 2017 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

An early George Formby classic, resuscitated for Hallowe’en. Continue reading →

No lessons from history

Politics

No lessons from history

Posted on 5 October 2017 by Alwyn Turner • 4 Comments

After the conferences, what’s the state of political play, asks ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading →

Off the shelf: A Legacy of Spies

Culture

Off the shelf: A Legacy of Spies

Posted on 1 October 2017 by Dan Atkinson • 1 Comment

DAN ATKINSON celebrates the last night of the Circus. Continue reading →

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The trends

Calling all cliches: Wielding the knife
‘The wrong kind of woman’: A press portrait of Liz Truss (pt 1)
2021 Politician of the Year (reincarnate)
Is this Britain's worst radio presenter?
Uncle Bill and his sticky buns
Halloween hits: Ain't It Grand to Be Bloomin' Well Dead
Seven-year itch
'God's time'
Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned
The roots of Blake's 7

The tags

BBC Boris Johnson Brexit calling all cliches Chris Mullin Chuka Umunna Clement Attlee Conservative Party Daily Express David Cameron David Lloyd George David Miliband Denis Healey Diane Abbott Donald Trump Ed Miliband Edward Heath Enoch Powell Ernest Bevin European Union First World War George Galloway George Osborne Gordon Brown Harold Macmillan Harold Wilson Hilary Benn Iain Duncan Smith imperial fiction Jack Straw James Callaghan Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Thorpe John Buchan John Major John McDonnell John Smith Keir Starmer Ken Livingstone Kenneth Clarke Labour Party Liberal Democrats Maastricht Treaty Margaret Thatcher Michael Foot Michael Gove Michael Howard Michael Portillo music hall Neil Kinnock Nick Clegg Nick Cohen Nigel Farage Olympic Games Owen Jones Peter Mandelson Pick of the pops Proud to be British Rear-view review referendum Revive 45 Robin Day Roy Jenkins SDP Sherlock Holmes SNP Theresa May Tim Farron Tom Watson Tony Benn Tony Blair UKIP William Hague Winston Churchill Yvette Cooper

The Twitter

The Latest

‘The wrong kind of woman’: A press portrait of Liz Truss (pt 1)
2021 Politician of the Year (reincarnate)
2021 Politician of the Year (dead)
‘A rippling mood of rebellion’
Halloween hits: Brahn Boots
‘God’s time’
Seven-year itch
‘We will go forward’: Starmer speaks!
Those were the days, comrades
‘Are they all Lefties?’

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