ALWYN TURNER on one of the greatest stars of the British music hall. Did he really influence Alice Cooper? Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
Halloween hits: I’m the Man that Buried Flanagan
Exhumed from the vaults for Halloween, here’s a 1911 song by Billy Williams. Continue reading
Liz Truss: an obituary
ALWYN TURNER says farewell to this week’s prime minister. Iron Lady Mk III or Ed Miliband in a frock? Continue reading
Boris Johnson: An obituary
Some thoughts on the passing of another prime minister, by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
‘As if to take the piss…’
ALWYN TURNER on the FA Carling Premiership, Fever Pitch and the realisation that everything had gone wrong. Continue reading
Howezat
Tories resigning from cabinet in protest at the PM? ALWYN TURNER on the events of November 1990. Continue reading
‘The real Britain’
ALWYN TURNER on John Betjeman, Annie Walker and the Silver Jubilee. Continue reading
The death of Lymeswold
ALWYN TURNER remembers the late unlamented cheese, 30 years on from its passing. Continue reading
‘Some impertinent Argentinians’
40 years on from the invasion of the Falkland Islands… Continue reading
‘The wrong kind of woman’: The early years of Liz Truss
ALWYN TURNER’s press portrait of Liz Truss’s rise, featuring Cameron’s Cuties, the Turnip Taliban and Greenham Common. Continue reading
Halloween hits: Brahn Boots
A Stanley Holloway classic, resuscitated for Hallowe’en. Continue reading
Seven-year itch
ALWYN TURNER attempts to identify social trends via the medium of online pornography. Continue reading
Lion & Unicorn 