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Monthly Archives: December 2017

Imperial fiction: Boy

Culture

Imperial fiction: Boy

Posted on 16 December 2017 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

ALWYN TURNER reads Marie Corelli’s forgotten Boer War fable from 1900. Continue reading →

Imperial fiction: Beau Geste

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Imperial fiction: Beau Geste

Posted on 10 December 2017 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

ALWYN TURNER on PC Wren’s 1924 tale of the French Foreign Legion. Continue reading →

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'A dream-like London'
'An accident' - Wes Streeting
Me and baby brother
Darkest Hour: The kindness of history
Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
Proud to be British: Hugh Grant
First lines: 1970s - part 1
'As hearty as roast beef': William Haggard
Calling all cliches: Summers of discontent

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Calling all cliches: Summers of discontent
‘The real Britain’
Jelly, ice-cream and tins of Harp
‘An accident’ – Wes Streeting
The death of Lymeswold
‘Some impertinent Argentinians’
Rear-view review: London Dossier
More than snooker
‘The wrong kind of woman’: A press portrait of Liz Truss (pt 1)
2021 Politician of the Year (reincarnate)

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