In foreign affairs there’s only one question that matters: Are you on the right side of history? Continue reading
Author Archives: Lion & Unicorn
2020 Politician of the Year (dead)
Boris Johnson has chosen the wrong lodestar. He should look to an earlier wartime premier. Continue reading
2020 Politician of the Year (decomposing)
The return of our award for the politician throwing it all away. Continue reading
‘I’m quite cool’ – Sadiq Khan
Mayor Sadiq Khan: a career in 55 quotes. Continue reading
Our Man in Malaga
SIMON MATTHEWS on a rediscovered British account of the Spanish Civil War that eclipses Orwell. Continue reading
Camden and the North
David Storey’s 1960 novel, Flight Into Camden, revisited by SIMON MATTHEWS. Continue reading
‘A dream-like London’
SIMON MATTHEWS on Tom Stoppard’s 1966 novel Lord Malquist and Mr Moon. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Never the same again
Nothing will ever be the same again. Nothing has ever been the same again. Continue reading
Unlovely Jubbly
Keith Waterhouse’s second novel is creepy and sleazy. But is it still comic? wonders SIMON MATTHEWS Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Making Britain great again
How long have we been promising ourselves that we can make Britain great again? Continue reading
Thornberry: a tribute in tweets
How Twitter responded to Emily Thornberry’s apology for antisemitism. Continue reading
Politician of the Decade (living)
Our award for the most significant British politician of the 2010s. Continue reading
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