From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers. Continue reading
Tag Archives: John Major
Novelist MPs #2: Woodrow Wyatt
Was Wyatt’s fiction as colourful as his diaries? wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Me and baby brother
PAUL SAFFER revisits the memoirs of Terry Major-Ball, older brother to a former Prime Minister. Continue reading
Never too Sunak
Rishi Sunak has risen without trace. How should Boris Johnson respond, wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
PMX bandits
How will Theresa May shape up as an ex-prime minister, wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
Breaking the Euro-election mould
ALWYN TURNER wanders through thirty years of elections to the European Parliament. Continue reading
‘Sturdy and true’: A government of national unity
Do we have a new Churchill and Attlee in our midst, wonders ROGER HERMISTON. Continue reading
The battle of the bulls’ semen
ALWYN TURNER remembers John Major’s problems with BSE and the EU. Continue reading
2018 Politician of the Year (living)
Our not so annual gong goes to the female Boris Yeltsin. Continue reading
‘Stroking kills’: A poor porn report
ALWYN TURNER objects to a report on pornography by the Women & Equalities Committee of the House of Commons. 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
No lessons from history
After the conferences, what’s the state of political play, asks ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
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