Francis Wheen

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It can't go on like this

  • 22 May 2008
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Britain in the 1970s was a disquieting place, fearful of the future. Governments lurched from crisis to crisis, buffeted by inflation and industrial unrest. Francis Wheen welcomes a new history of the decade which views the turmoil through the popular culture of the time

Diary - Francis Wheen

  • 16 February 2004

It's a treat to be accused of splenetic grumpiness by John Gray, the Screaming Lord Sutch of academe, whose own jeremiads make Victor Meldrew sound like Milly-Molly-Mandy

If Iain Duncan Smith, my lookalike, wins, I may have to leave the country, or use the Wella hair-dye I bought

  • 10 September 2001

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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