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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.

David Cameron

British Politics

The Cynosure of Rightwing Hopes

Derek Turner

Just after 10pm last Thursday, the BBC was allowed to broadcast the results of the exit po...

Elections

The End of the Affair

Derek Turner

Today, after a campaign many of us had begun to feel would never end, British voters elect...

Britain

Reflections on the English Identity

Derek Turner

I was standing in Stamford, Lincolnshire on Saturday, admiring as always the architecture ...

Muammar Gaddafi

Europe

A Flotilla of Troubles

Derek Turner

Another week, another mass drowning of miserable people, another ostentatious lamentation ...

Jon Snow

Britain

Tepee Time in London

Derek Turner

Guardian journalist Zoe Williams is worried. "Is the left in Britain still alive and w...

Nicola Sturgeon

British Politics

Change for Change’s Sake

Derek Turner

Britain's new multi-party politics has pundits and bookies salivating at the prospect of m...

British Politics

The Reign of John Bercow

Derek Turner

The Speaker of the House of Commons is the most powerful commoner in the United Kingdom. O...

Nigel Farage

Britain

The UKIP Omnibus

Derek Turner

As May 7th bulks ever bigger on the political horizon, the UKIP omnibus has developed seri...

Injured Parties

White (and poor) is the New Black

Derek Turner

Multiculturalism is dead - long live multiculturalism? Another year, another denunciation...

Britain

The Secret State vs. Enemies of State

Derek Turner

When Mohammed Emwazi went out from west London to Syria literally to carve out a new caree...

Cardinal Keith O

Scandal

Keeping the Pope’s Boat Afloat

Derek Turner

The dramatic departure from office of the Scottish Catholic Cardinal Keith O"Brien, am...

King Richard III

History

Unearthing Richard III

Derek Turner

On February 4th, the University of Leicester announced that the bones unearthed last Augus...

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Lit Crit

A Traveler in Search of Tradition

Derek Turner

Cooper, Artemis. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. London: John Murray, 2010. On Decemb...

Rupert Murdoch

Media

Leveson’s Legacy

Derek Turner

A venerable British political tradition dictates that whenever some important matter arise...

Julian Assange

Media

Who Guards Those Who Guard the Guardians?

Derek Turner

In July 2011, in response to public anger at a few tabloid journalists" illegal activi...

Jimmy Savile

Britain

Jimmy Savile: Emblem of an Age

Derek Turner

On New Year's Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first edition of the ...

Lit Crit

The End of Adventure

Derek Turner

Judith Schalansky. Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands"Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and...

British Politics

The Shriveling Scottish Identity

Derek Turner

When Scotland and England were united formally in 1707, the Scottish Earl of Seafield rema...

Banksy

Britain

Royal Pains

Derek Turner

After four days of royalist reverie, the imported Union Jacks are starting to sag"droo...

Abu Qatada

Britain

Welfare Fraud: Billions for Zeros

Derek Turner

While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril's way in Afghanista...

Fabrice Muamba

Britain

England’s Surrogate Religion

Derek Turner

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

Wild Things

Have AIDS, Will Travel

Derek Turner

English taxpayers awoke one morning in late February to discover that the nation's gaiety ...

Eric Joyce MP

British Politics

Eric Joyce’s Hands-On Politics

Derek Turner

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

Prime Minister David Cameron

Britain

Making Sense and Nonsense of the Riots

Derek Turner

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

Britain

The Tournaments of Tottenham

Derek Turner

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

Rebecca Black

Pop Music

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

Derek Turner

As an aficionado of the atrocious, I thought I"d sneak a peek at Rebecca Black's song ...

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