‘It’s your blood’

ALWYN TURNER on docusoaps, makeovers, video diaries & the democratization of culture in the 1990s. Continue reading →

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This Is (not) Tomorrow

SIMON MATTHEWS on a new book by Martin Gayford – and how politics killed British art. Continue reading →

Frank Field: a square peg

ALWYN TURNER on the man who thought the unthinkable – and lost his job as a result. Continue reading →

Safe in their hands

Some notes on the NHS and Labour governments. Continue reading →

Purves Power

PAUL SAFFER on Peter Purves inventing modern football at Italia 90. Continue reading →

‘Stupid boy’: Hague as leader

A weak leader, an ageing party, bitter divisions over Europe – ALWYN TURNER remembers William Hague’s Tories. Continue reading →

‘Making socialists want to vomit’

BEN FINLAY on Jezza, Jagger and sleepy London Town. Continue reading →