Sixty years of lurching… Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Final Cut: Now Barabbas Was a Robber (1949)
SIMON MATTHEWS on an anti-death-penalty movie written by the brother of a prime minister. Continue reading
The censoring of Sexton Blake
ALWYN TURNER wonders why he’s being protected from the prejudices of Edwardian pulp fiction. Continue reading
Final Cut: Children of Men (2006)
SIMON MATTHEWS watches the screen adaptation of PD James’s dystopian novel. Continue reading
Privatising the NHS
Year-by-year fears of NHS privatisation in the Thatcher-Major era. Continue reading