ALWYN TURNER remembers the music from the days of Harold Wilson’s third election victory. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2019
The battle of Jenkins’s heirs
Where is the Independent Group heading? Is it the SDP Mk II? Blair’s Babes? Or David Davis revisited? Continue reading
An experimental plane
Some first thoughts on the Independent Group. Continue reading
‘A posh lot’: The birth of the SDP
ALWYN TURNER remembers the SDP – ‘the party of the future’, according to Barry from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Black Beauty
ALWYN TURNER on Anna Sewell’s 1877 novel of good horses and bad masters. Continue reading
Proud to be British
What kind of thing made young people proud of Britain 40 years ago? Continue reading
1989: The roots of Brexit
ALWYN TURNER on how the fall of the Berlin Wall allowed the rise of Euroscepticism in Britain. Continue reading
Album of the week: Clockwork Carousel
ALWYN TURNER listens to a great debut by a bucolic British rock band. Continue reading
Lion & Unicorn 