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.
UK Elections
Choosing Gordon Brown’s SuccessorJune 29, 2010 An anxious nation awaits. Yes, it’s Labour leadership contest time—in which |
Opinion
IslamophobiaJune 18, 2010 Islamophobia—the tendentious term trips off the tongue full of clinical |
Obit
The Injust Legacy of Blair PeachMay 25, 2010 If there is one thing the ultra-Left likes better than stories about fascism, |
UK Elections
Nice Knowin’ Ya, BrownMay 12, 2010 It returned briefly, like a bad memory—a choking cloud, smelling slightly of |
British Politics
Brown, Cameron, and Dim CleggApril 22, 2010 The quinquennial General Election carnival of Tweddledum versus Tweedledee is |
Idiocracy
Christine Blower: The Nutjob Ruining British EducationApril 14, 2010 On 3 April, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) announced that it |
Journalism
Independent Columnists Perhaps, But Not Independent MindsMarch 24, 2010 The Independent is a newspaper with intellectual pretensions, and unlike most |
The Stupid Party
Pathetic LondonFebruary 16, 2010 “Progressive London Conference”: the phrase is simultaneously gruesome and |
In Vogue
Tintin’s Flawed CreatorJanuary 13, 2010 Few cartoon characters have been loved—or argued over—more than Tintin, the |
Britain
The BNP’s “Aboriginal” ProblemOctober 16, 2009 On the 15th of October, the British National Party and the government’s |
Europe
Dark ContinentSeptember 03, 2009 Under Discussion: Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In |
Europe
The Right Way to Brussels?June 09, 2009 On Thursday 4th June, British voters went to the polls to elect 72 British |
Europe
Savage NationMay 12, 2009 Is Free Speech Banned in the UK? Like all governments, the British state has |
Media
BBC PriggeryFebruary 16, 2009 On 3rd February, it was announced that Margaret Thatcher’s daughter Carol |
Geert Wilders and the Dutch RepublicFebruary 06, 2009 Geert Wilders’ courage, charisma, strength of character and intelligence are not in |
Diversity
The Institution of “Institutional Racism”January 29, 2009 The Macpherson Report on the police investigation of the 1993 murder of black |
Europe
A Bridge Too Far—Turkey & EuropeNovember 24, 2008 The ongoing attempt by Europe’s present sorry crop of leaders to permit Turkey to join |