‘Get up, you filthy Hun!’ SIMON MATTHEWS watches a 1941 classic war movie. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Final Cut: Murder, She Said (1961)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
Final cut: Beau Brummell
SIMON MATTHEWS revisits a fictional account of the greatest dandy of them all. Continue reading
Endeavouring to learn
So what do we learn of British history from watching the period cop show Endeavour? ALWYN TURNER is our guide. Continue reading
Final cut: The Blockhouse
SIMON MATTHEWS on Peter Sellers’s 1973 excursion into art-house movies. Continue reading
Final cut: Juggernaut
SIMON MATTHEWS on a state-of-the-nation movie for a nation that wasn’t watching. Continue reading
Remembering Chirgwin
ALWYN TURNER on one of the greatest stars of the British music hall. Did he really influence Alice Cooper? Continue reading
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
‘A sinister, if gifted buffoon’
SIMON MATTHEWS on Aleister Crowley – magician, poet and 73rd Greatest Briton. 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
The death of Lymeswold
ALWYN TURNER remembers the late unlamented cheese, 30 years on from its passing. Continue reading
Rear-view review: London Dossier
DAN ATKINSON on a book of snapshots of Swinging London, from Guards bands to porn shops. Continue reading
Lion & Unicorn 