Showing posts with label Julian Critchley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julian Critchley. Show all posts
Sunday, June 01, 2025

Lord Bonkers 30 years ago: The Book of Revelation and Earl Russell (but not his Big Band)

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"The first of the month," observed Lord Bonkers this morning. I knew what he was hinting at: it's time again for me to see wha...
Monday, May 27, 2024

The soft man of Brexit? Steve Baker goes on holiday during the election campaign

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Steve Baker, who had a majority of 4214 over Labour in his Wycombe constituency in 2019, has flown off to Crete for a holiday, despite the g...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Harold Macmillan on why Oswald Mosley failed

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Embed from Getty Images From Julian Critchley's memoirs A Bag of Boiled Sweets , published in 1994: Macmillan greeted me gravely, and we...
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Brexit is the fools' revenge on Harold Macmillan

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Visiting Julian Critchley's grave at Wistanstow in Shropshire, I quoted an interview he once gave to Naim Attallah : "I had two he...
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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Harold Macmillan on Oswald Mosley's uniform

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Embed from Getty Images Marina Hyde , in her demolition of Katie Hopkins, quotes P.G. Wodehouse's immortal paragraph on Roderi...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Theresa May is the opposite of Harold Macmillan

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Embed from Getty Images Writing about Julian Critchley after visiting his grave at Wistanstow, I quoted an interview he gave to ...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Julian Critchley's grave at Wistanstow

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The churchyard at Wistanstow is probably not the site of the martyrdom of St Wystan , but it does contain the grave of one of my favourite...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

My speech to Leicester Writers Club annual dinner

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Last Thursday I gave the speech at the dinner of Leicester Writers Club. I won't reproduce the whole thing here, but it leant heavily on...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Hunting on election day

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Paul Walter is aghast that Dick Cheney has spent polling day hunting. "You couldn't make it up," he writes. That is nothing. ...
Thursday, October 06, 2005

A big, affectionate slap on the rump

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Before the waters of oblivion close over its head, let's celebrate yesterday's Simon Hoggart sketch from the Tory Conference: For t...