Floggit’s was an unremarkable 1950s BBC radio series that starred Elsie and Doris Waters who played Gert and Daisy, owners of a village general store. Gert and Daisy had been … Read the rest
Tag: fiction
“All these years, all these disasters, he’s finally gone.”
The final words of Dr Who, after his encounter with Tony Blair… or rather, Harold Saxon.
Elected on a landslide, … Read the rest
Confessions of a Diary Secretary – a comedy that exploited the then-Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott’s affair with a civil servant – was broadcast on ITV in February 2007. While … Read the rest
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer was released during the autumn of 1970, just a few months after the Conservative Party had won the June general election and ended … Read the rest
In this post for my personal blog I put Ed Miliband’s current problems into perspective with the help of some political fictions and wonder if Miliband’s troubles are due to … Read the rest
In yesterday’s Evening Standard Joe Murphy reported an apparent scoop he had picked from John Wittingdale’s Speaker’s Lecture on Great Parliamentarians. The subject was Margaret Thatcher to whom Whittingdale had … Read the rest
When I first read Edgar Wallace’s The Four Just Men (1905) I thought it was one of the most shocking books I’d ever read. I mean that literally: the ending … Read the rest
Once disregarded by politicians and students of politics alike, women – and the issue of gender more generally – now occupy a slightly less peripheral position in real-world and academic … Read the rest
According to a 2009 Eurobarometer survey 62 per cent of Britons believed that ‘the giving and taking of bribes, and the abuse of positions of power for personal gain’ was … Read the rest
Kay Burley is one of the top presenters on Sky News. That means she is a person of influence. If you get Sky News.
Ms Burley has just published a … Read the rest