Francis Wheen

Books

It can't go on like this

• 22 May 2008
• 1 comment

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