Christine Shawcroft: a career in 28 quotes. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2018
‘Racists, spivs and fraudsters’
Is Brexit bringing out the worst in James O’Brien? ALWYN TURNER listens and worries. Continue reading
‘The new chosen one’ – Laura Pidcock
Laura Pidcock MP: a career in 41 quotes. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland
ALWYN TURNER goes back to 1923 to read about Sapper’s other great hero. Continue reading
‘A disciplined comrade’ – Richard Burgon
Richard Burgon MP: a career in 40 quotes. Continue reading
Labourites in the vineyard
ALWYN TURNER remembers complaints in the 1980s about Tony Benn and ‘the elitism of activists’. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Sanders of the River
ALWYN TURNER on Edgar Wallace’s cynical tales of colonial administration from 1911. Continue reading