All my work from 2020:
An extended review of Oliver Letwin's memoir
Hearts and Minds: The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present:
His political ideas are already as antiquated as Noah’s ark. I do not know a single one of the younger men in England who is influenced by them in the slightest degree, though one hears of one occa…
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A piece about the Antonio Margheriti films
Cannibal Apocalypse,
The Last Hunter,
Tiger Joe,
Code Name: Wild Geese,
Commando Leopard and
The Commander:
An essay about the destruction of Swansea, Vernon Watkins'
The Broken Sea, Dylan Thomas' 'Return Journey' and Welsh nationalism:
They take you up on Townhill at night to see the furnaces in the pit of the town blazing scarlet, and the parallel crossing lines of lamps…If it is always a city of dreadful day, it is for th…
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A very neglected study on British identity in the Powell and Pressburger films
49th Parallel,
One of our aircraft is missing...,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,
Black Narcissus,
A Canterbury Tale,
Gone to Earth,
The Edge of the World,
I know where I'm going!,
A Matter of Life and Death,
The Small Back Room,
The Battle of the River Plate,
Ill Met By Moonlight and
Peeping Tom:
Great Britain, as it emerged in the years between the Act of Union and the accession of Queen Victoria, and as it exists today, must be seen both as one relatively new nation, and as an alliance of…
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An essay on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and the rise and rise of Donald Trump:
I: Family Sarah Palin was like a comet zooming across the American sky: out of Alaska, a blazing vision of the republic’s future. In the thick of this current political era, it is worth re-…
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