ALWYN TURNER on Liz Truss’s early days, featuring Cameron’s Cuties, the Turnip Taliban and Greenham Common. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
‘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
Calling all cliches: Making Britain great again
How long have we been promising ourselves that we can make Britain great again? Continue reading
The donkey’s not for stalking
ALWYN TURNER on Anthony Meyer’s 1989 leadership challenge to Margaret Thatcher. Continue reading
Revive 45: November 1974
ALWYN TURNER wonders if it can really be 45 years since the Rollers, the Rubettes and David Essex were in the chart. Continue reading
Lion & Unicorn 