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.
Scandal
Keeping the Pope’s Boat AfloatMarch 01, 2013 The dramatic departure from office of the Scottish Catholic Cardinal Keith |
History
Unearthing Richard IIIFebruary 10, 2013 On February 4th, the University of Leicester announced that the bones unearthed |
Lit Crit
A Traveler in Search of TraditionDecember 30, 2012 Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. London: John Murray, |
Media
Leveson’s LegacyDecember 20, 2012 A venerable British political tradition dictates that whenever some important |
Media
Who Guards Those Who Guard the Guardians?November 13, 2012 In July 2011, in response to public anger at a few tabloid journalists’ |
Britain
Jimmy Savile: Emblem of an AgeNovember 05, 2012 On New Year’s Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first |
Lit Crit
The End of AdventureOctober 29, 2012 Judith Schalansky. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands—Fifty Islands I Have Not |
British Politics
The Shriveling Scottish IdentityOctober 16, 2012 When Scotland and England were united formally in 1707, the Scottish Earl of |
Britain
Royal PainsJune 08, 2012 After four days of royalist reverie, the imported Union Jacks are starting to |
Britain
Welfare Fraud: Billions for ZerosMarch 30, 2012 While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril’s way |
Britain
England’s Surrogate ReligionMarch 23, 2012 It is sometimes said that football is like a religion to the English. As the |
Wild Things
Have AIDS, Will TravelMarch 07, 2012 English taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the |
British Politics
Eric Joyce’s Hands-On PoliticsFebruary 28, 2012 On Tuesday February 22nd, police were called to the Strangers’ Bar in the |
Britain
Making Sense and Nonsense of the RiotsAugust 23, 2011 It all started, says Darcus Howe, as an insurrection of a generation of |
Britain
The Tournaments of TottenhamAugust 09, 2011 In 1653, the year Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, there appeared the |
Pop Music
Becky Black’s “Friday”: Pap Music’s Weak EndMarch 30, 2011 As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I’d sneak a peek at Rebecca |
Public Nuisances
Midsomer Murders’ Afro-Saxon Activist InvadersMarch 21, 2011 The English are in love with murder. From The Woman in White and The Hound of |
Sports
Sexism On and Off the FieldFebruary 01, 2011 On January 22, Sky Sports announcers Andy Gray and Richard Keys were overheard |
Britain
Nick Boles: England’s Arch-ModernizerNovember 19, 2010 Boles, Nick. Which Way’s Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get |
Britain
Lauren Booth Turns Toward MeccaNovember 04, 2010 Last month, Tony Blair’s half-sister-in-law Lauren Booth announced that she |
Media
Rupert Murdoch: the “Populist” PlutocratOctober 18, 2010 Few causes could get the heads of the BBC, Channel 4, the Daily Telegraph, |
Public Nuisances
Bono, Geldof, and Hibernian Humanity-HuggersOctober 07, 2010 The guests were singing maudlin folksongs trying to drown out the TV’s |
Idiocracy
AssociationitisSeptember 22, 2010 The UK Treasury is considering replacing the copper in some coins with nickel |
Political Truths
Demos’‘The Power of Unreason’, and Other Ridiculous ConspiraciesSeptember 07, 2010 On August 29, the London think-tank Demos released a report called The Power of |
British Politics
William Hague: The Right-Winger Who Wasn’tJuly 28, 2010 Tories perturbed by the party’s lackluster election and shacking up with the |
Trade Unions
Awkward Truths About the Awkward SquadJuly 14, 2010 As the cooling winds of austerity move in across superheated Britain, one |