SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Tony Benn
‘Some impertinent Argentinians’
40 years on from the invasion of the Falkland Islands… Continue reading
‘Your horse is gay’: The Noughties in quotes
The story of a decade, in the words of Eddie Izzard, Dizzee Rascal, Stella Rimington and many more – selected by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
‘It was everything I feared’
From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers. Continue reading
2020 Politician of the Year (decomposing)
The return of our award for the politician throwing it all away. Continue reading
Politician of the Decade (living)
Our award for the most significant British politician of the 2010s. Continue reading
Politician of the Decade (dead)
Our award for the most influential deceased politician of the 2010s. Continue reading
‘Petty differences’: Not a government of national unity
ALWYN TURNER remembers the appeals for the country to come together in 1974. Continue reading
‘Where there is discord’: The 1979 election
ALWYN TURNER on the arrival of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. Continue reading
The battle of Jenkins’s heirs
Where is the Independent Group heading? Is it the SDP Mk II? Blair’s Babes? Or David Davis revisited? Continue reading
1989: The roots of Brexit
ALWYN TURNER on how the fall of the Berlin Wall allowed the rise of Euroscepticism in Britain. Continue reading
Thank you for the Day
PAUL SAFFER on Robin Day, the always-humble Grand Inquisitor who gave us BBC’s Question Time. Continue reading
Lion & Unicorn 