Derek Turner

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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 Zeros

Welfare Fraud: Billions for Zeros

While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril’s way in

Britain

England’s Surrogate Religion

England’s Surrogate Religion

It is sometimes said that football is like a religion to the English. As the legendary

Wild Things

Have AIDS, Will Travel

Have AIDS, Will Travel

English taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the nation’s

British Politics

Eric Joyce’s Hands-On Politics 

Eric Joyce’s Hands-On Politics 

On Tuesday February 22nd, police were called to the Strangers’ Bar in the House of

Britain

Making Sense and Nonsense of the Riots

Making Sense and Nonsense of the Riots

It all started, says Darcus Howe, as  an insurrection of a generation of poor,

Britain

The Tournaments of Tottenham

The Tournaments of Tottenham

In 1653, the year Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, there appeared the first

Pop Music

Becky Black’s “Friday”: Pap Music’s Weak End

Becky Black’s “Friday”: Pap Music’s Weak End

As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I’d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black’s

Public Nuisances

Midsomer Murders’ Afro-Saxon Activist Invaders

Midsomer Murders’ Afro-Saxon Activist Invaders

The English are in love with murder. From The Woman in White and The Hound of the

Sports

Sexism On and Off the Field

Sexism On and Off the Field

On January 22, Sky Sports announcers Andy Gray and Richard Keys were overheard joking

Britain

Nick Boles: England’s Arch-Modernizer

Nick Boles: England’s Arch-Modernizer

Boles, Nick. Which Way’s Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get There.

Britain

Lauren Booth Turns Toward Mecca

Lauren Booth Turns Toward Mecca

Last month, Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law Lauren Booth announced that she had

Media

Rupert Murdoch: the “Populist” Plutocrat

Rupert Murdoch: the “Populist” Plutocrat

Few causes could get the heads of the BBC, Channel 4, the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail,

Public Nuisances

Bono, Geldof, and Hibernian Humanity-Huggers

Bono, Geldof, and Hibernian Humanity-Huggers

The guests were singing maudlin folksongs trying to drown out the TV’s noxious

Idiocracy

Associationitis

Associationitis

The UK Treasury is considering replacing the copper in some coins with nickel steel as

Political Truths

Demos’‘The Power of Unreason’, and Other Ridiculous Conspiracies

Demos’‘The Power of Unreason’, and Other Ridiculous Conspiracies

On August 29, the London think-tank Demos released a report called The Power of

British Politics

William Hague: The Right-Winger Who Wasn’t

William Hague: The Right-Winger Who Wasn’t

Tories perturbed by the party’s lackluster election and shacking up with the

Trade Unions

Awkward Truths About the Awkward Squad

Awkward Truths About the Awkward Squad

As the cooling winds of austerity move in across superheated Britain, one gallant group

UK Elections

Choosing Gordon Brown’s Successor

Choosing Gordon Brown’s Successor

An anxious nation awaits. Yes, it’s Labour leadership contest time—in which all the

Opinion

Islamophobia

Islamophobia

Islamophobia—the tendentious term trips off the tongue full of clinical

Obit

The Injust Legacy of Blair Peach

The Injust Legacy of Blair Peach

If there is one thing the ultra-Left likes better than stories about fascism, it is

UK Elections

Nice Knowin’ Ya, Brown

Nice Knowin’ Ya, Brown

It returned briefly, like a bad memory—a choking cloud, smelling slightly of sulphur,

British Politics

Brown, Cameron, and Dim Clegg

Brown, Cameron, and Dim Clegg

The quinquennial General Election carnival of Tweddledum versus Tweedledee is on again,

Idiocracy

Christine Blower: The Nutjob Ruining British Education

Christine Blower: The Nutjob Ruining British Education

On 3 April, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) announced that it was

Journalism

Independent Columnists Perhaps, But Not Independent Minds

Independent Columnists Perhaps, But Not Independent Minds

The Independent is a newspaper with intellectual pretensions, and unlike most British

The Stupid Party

Pathetic London

Pathetic London

“Progressive London Conference”: the phrase is simultaneously gruesome and

In Vogue

Tintin’s Flawed Creator

Tintin’s Flawed Creator

Few cartoon characters have been loved—or argued over—more than Tintin, the Belgian

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