Derek Turner 
Derek Turner is the editor of the Quarterly Review. His writing has appeared in the Times, Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review, Salisbury Review, and Chronicles.
Britain
Welfare Fraud: Billions for ZerosWhile British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril’s way in |
Britain
England’s Surrogate ReligionIt is sometimes said that football is like a religion to the English. As the legendary |
Wild Things
Have AIDS, Will TravelEnglish taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the nation’s |
British Politics
Eric Joyce’s Hands-On PoliticsOn Tuesday February 22nd, police were called to the Strangers’ Bar in the House of |
Britain
Making Sense and Nonsense of the RiotsIt all started, says Darcus Howe, as an insurrection of a generation of poor, |
Britain
The Tournaments of TottenhamIn 1653, the year Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, there appeared the first |
Pop Music
Becky Black’s “Friday”: Pap Music’s Weak EndAs an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I’d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black’s |
Public Nuisances
Midsomer Murders’ Afro-Saxon Activist InvadersThe English are in love with murder. From The Woman in White and The Hound of the |
Sports
Sexism On and Off the FieldOn January 22, Sky Sports announcers Andy Gray and Richard Keys were overheard joking |
Britain
Nick Boles: England’s Arch-ModernizerBoles, Nick. Which Way’s Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get There. |
Britain
Lauren Booth Turns Toward MeccaLast month, Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law Lauren Booth announced that she had |
Media
Rupert Murdoch: the “Populist” PlutocratFew causes could get the heads of the BBC, Channel 4, the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, |
Public Nuisances
Bono, Geldof, and Hibernian Humanity-HuggersThe guests were singing maudlin folksongs trying to drown out the TV’s noxious |
Idiocracy
AssociationitisThe UK Treasury is considering replacing the copper in some coins with nickel steel as |
Political Truths
Demos’‘The Power of Unreason’, and Other Ridiculous ConspiraciesOn August 29, the London think-tank Demos released a report called The Power of |
British Politics
William Hague: The Right-Winger Who Wasn’tTories perturbed by the party’s lackluster election and shacking up with the |
Trade Unions
Awkward Truths About the Awkward SquadAs the cooling winds of austerity move in across superheated Britain, one gallant group |
UK Elections
Choosing Gordon Brown’s SuccessorAn anxious nation awaits. Yes, it’s Labour leadership contest time—in which all the |
Opinion
IslamophobiaIslamophobia—the tendentious term trips off the tongue full of clinical |
Obit
The Injust Legacy of Blair PeachIf there is one thing the ultra-Left likes better than stories about fascism, it is |
UK Elections
Nice Knowin’ Ya, BrownIt returned briefly, like a bad memory—a choking cloud, smelling slightly of sulphur, |
British Politics
Brown, Cameron, and Dim CleggThe quinquennial General Election carnival of Tweddledum versus Tweedledee is on again, |
Idiocracy
Christine Blower: The Nutjob Ruining British EducationOn 3 April, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) announced that it was |
Journalism
Independent Columnists Perhaps, But Not Independent MindsThe Independent is a newspaper with intellectual pretensions, and unlike most British |
The Stupid Party
Pathetic London“Progressive London Conference”: the phrase is simultaneously gruesome and |
In Vogue
Tintin’s Flawed CreatorFew cartoon characters have been loved—or argued over—more than Tintin, the Belgian |
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