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 →

Howezat

Tories resigning from cabinet in protest at the PM? ALWYN TURNER on the events of November 1990. 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 →

‘A rippling mood of rebellion’

SIMON MATTHEWS reads Sheila Rowbotham’s memoir of the 1970s, featuring socialism, feminism and Barry White. Continue reading →

Maggie’s little golden boy

Is Boris Johnson under threat from Rushi Sunak? PAUL SAFFER says the Chancellor should remember the fable of John Moore. Continue reading →

Fun and games with Robert Maxwell

Robert Maxwell left a dark legacy, but PAUL SAFFER remembers a lighter moment from his assault on public life. Continue reading →

Will you still love me tomorrow?

ALWYN W TURNER explores the fear and loathing in Britain’s response to AIDS. Continue reading →

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 →

The dawning of a new era?

Will the COVID-19 crisis see the start of a new economic order? asks DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading →

Revive 45: February 1975

Pilot, the Glitter Band, Johnny Wakelin… It must be the top ten from 45 years ago, concludes ALWYN TURNER Continue reading →