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.
British Politics
The Cynosure of Rightwing HopesMay 14 2015 Just after 10pm last Thursday, the BBC was allowed to broadcast the results of the exit poll it had been conducting outside voting stations during |
Elections
The End of the AffairMay 07 2015 Today, after a campaign many of us had begun to feel would never end, British voters elect the MPs who will rule or misrule them |
Britain
Reflections on the English IdentityApr 30 2015 I was standing in Stamford, Lincolnshire on Saturday, admiring as always the architecture so splendidly Georgian it is used for filming Jane Austen adaptations. But |
Europe
A Flotilla of TroublesApr 23 2015 Another week, another mass drowning of miserable people, another ostentatious lamentation from politicians and pontificators, all the way up to The Pontiff himself. As the |
Britain
Tepee Time in LondonApr 16 2015 Guardian journalist Zoe Williams is worried. "Is the left in Britain still alive and well?" she asks. Apparently, "no one quite knows where it has |
British Politics
Change for Change’s SakeApr 09 2015 Britain's new multi-party politics has pundits and bookies salivating at the prospect of minority governments, hung parliaments, awkward alliances, and kingmakers after the May 7th |
British Politics
The Reign of John BercowApr 03 2015 The Speaker of the House of Commons is the most powerful commoner in the United Kingdom. On the 26th of March, an attempt to change |
Britain
The UKIP OmnibusMar 26 2015 As May 7th bulks ever bigger on the political horizon, the UKIP omnibus has developed serious rattles. As the campaign pounds punishingly on, the insurgents" |
Injured Parties
White (and poor) is the New BlackMar 19 2015 Multiculturalism is dead - long live multiculturalism? Another year, another denunciation of multiculturalism, another denunciation of that denunciation, another continuation of multiculturalism. It is a |
Britain
The Secret State vs. Enemies of StateMar 12 2015 When Mohammed Emwazi went out from west London to Syria literally to carve out a new career as "Jihadi John", masked avenger of non-wrongs, England |
Politics
Keeping the Pope’s Boat AfloatMar 01 2013 The dramatic departure from office of the Scottish Catholic Cardinal Keith O"Brien, amid allegations of sexual misconduct and gross hypocrisy, has all the ingredients of |
Cultural Caviar
Unearthing Richard IIIFeb 10 2013 On February 4th, the University of Leicester announced that the bones unearthed last August beneath a former parking lot in Leicester really were what had |
Cultural Caviar
A Traveler in Search of TraditionDec 30 2012 Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. London: John Murray, 2010. On December 9th, 1933, an eighteen-year-old miscreant rushed through the rain at Tower Bridge |
Commerce
Leveson’s LegacyDec 20 2012 A venerable British political tradition dictates that whenever some important matter arises, the government commissions an inquiry chaired by a renowned expert. This expert duly |
Cultural Caviar
Who Guards Those Who Guard the Guardians?Nov 13 2012 In July 2011, in response to public anger at a few tabloid journalists" illegal activities, David Cameron reluctantly announced the Leveson Inquiry into the specific |
Britain
Jimmy Savile: Emblem of an AgeNov 05 2012 On New Year's Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first edition of the BBC's Top of the Pops from inside a converted |
Cultural Caviar
The End of AdventureOct 29 2012 Judith Schalansky. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands"Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will. London, New York: Penguin, 2012. 240 pp. The West is |
British Politics
The Shriveling Scottish IdentityOct 16 2012 When Scotland and England were united formally in 1707, the Scottish Earl of Seafield remarked in smug satisfaction, "There's the end of an auld sang." |
Britain
Royal PainsJun 08 2012 After four days of royalist reverie, the imported Union Jacks are starting to sag"drooping disconsolately as the proud people who "never ever shall be slaves" |
Britain
Welfare Fraud: Billions for ZerosMar 30 2012 While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril's way in Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon perhaps elsewhere, they must find great comfort knowing that |
Britain
England’s Surrogate ReligionMar 23 2012 It is sometimes said that football is like a religion to the English. As the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once half-joked, football is more |
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Have AIDS, Will TravelMar 07 2012 English taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the nation's gaiety had been greatly augmented. The BBC proclaimed joyous tidings""Free HIV treatment |
British Politics
Eric Joyce’s Hands-On PoliticsFeb 28 2012 On Tuesday February 22nd, police were called to the Strangers" Bar in the House of Commons to remove a man who had allegedly gone berserk, |
Britain
Making Sense and Nonsense of the RiotsAug 23 2011 It all started, says Darcus Howe, as an insurrection of a generation of poor, primarily, black people from the Caribbean and from Africa. Then it |
Britain
The Tournaments of TottenhamAug 09 2011 In 1653, the year Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, there appeared the first edition of what would become a classic—Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler. |
Cultural Caviar
Becky Black’s “Friday”: Pap Music’s Weak EndMar 30 2011 As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I"d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black's song "Friday." For those too engrossed in such small matters |
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