Category Politics

In his script about a British borstal, Roy Minton portrayed rape, suicide, sickening violence in which racist warders were complicit, and a full-scale riot — all in the space of 90 minutes of what is now regarded as a cult…

Sir Ernest Hall liked to call himself “a successful failure”, taking the theme as the title for his autobiography How to be a Failure and Succeed, which detailed how he gave up music as a young man and became a…