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Monthly Archives: June 2022

Calling all cliches: Summers of discontent

Miscellaneous

Calling all cliches: Summers of discontent

Posted on 13 June 2022 by Lion & Unicorn • Leave a comment

Are we facing a Summer of Discontent? Of course we are. We’re always facing a Summer of Discontent. Continue reading →

‘The real Britain’

History

‘The real Britain’

Posted on 4 June 2022 by Alwyn Turner • Leave a comment

ALWYN TURNER on John Betjeman, Annie Walker and the Silver Jubilee. Continue reading →

Jelly, ice-cream and tins of Harp

History

Jelly, ice-cream and tins of Harp

Posted on 2 June 2022 by Dan Atkinson • Leave a comment

DAN ATKINSON remembers the Silver Jubilee of 1977. Continue reading →

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Uncle Bill and his sticky buns
Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned
First lines: 1970s - part 1
‘Plainly nuts’: A press portrait of Paul Nuttall
'Danger to democracy': A press portrait of Diane Abbott (pt 1)
Biba vs The Angry Brigade
Halloween hits: With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm
Liz Truss: an obituary
Howezat
A brief history of fly-posting

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

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Final cut: Juggernaut (1974)
Remembering Chirgwin
Calling all cliches: The most right-wing government
‘Alarmist reporting’
Halloween hits: I’m the Man that Buried Flanagan
Liz Truss: an obituary
There’s a Starmer waiting in the sky
‘A sinister, if gifted buffoon’
Elizabeth II: ‘The original girl boss’
Boris Johnson: An obituary

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