Lockdown Lit List
Richard Lutz flips through the books he read in 2020 – the good, the bad, the downright appalling.
G’bye, dear Trumpsylvania
Sir Howard Elston charts The Trump Legacy.
Hoop Dreams and a sliver of hope
Will Mapplebeck points the way to his Number One choice for best documentary.
Mind the gap: Moseley Express hits funding jinx
Richard Lutz reports on a £20 million shortfall for the reopening of the Camp Hill rail line.
The Elston report: We track down bigtime Trump moneyman
Lord Howard Elston, our embattled US editor, secretly meets the disgraced president’s greatest supporter.
Trump flip-flops to save his skin
Richard Lutz reports on the latest Capitol Crimes.
Stratchcarrick freeze out and a Manx tale to boot
Richard Lutz is caught out by the cold, and other things.
Digging in
Richard Lutz gets busy…
Lockdown Christmas: Sinkies by the sea
Richard Lutz lurches towards a Christmas with tiers.
Ask Howard: How will Scotland control its shut border?
More burning answers from our man on the spot.
Printed on the wind
Richard Lutz is blown away by the flags that blow away.
One needle to save lives, another to kill
It’s a macabre prelude to festive fun in the US, says Richard Lutz.
John Wayne will never die
Richard Lutz on a question that won’t go away.
There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks where decades happen
Richard Lutz joins a food queue and ponders the mistletoe.
Trump wins Peoples’ Person of the Year Award
Prez tops big poll, writes our White House tipster Sir Harvey Elston (DOA).
It’s alright now, baby blue
Richard Lutz finds a perfect sky.
Long playing album and other tales
Richard Lutz peers into the past and lets smoke get in his food.
Twelve years a slave to the stage: My best (and worst) moments
Richard Lutz remembers a dozen years of reviewing Midland performances.
The Dickhead Tapes: Cummings and goings
Sir Howard Elston, our chief Westminster mole, sits down with public enemy number one, Dominic Cummings.
The Dickhead Tapes: Pence and nonsense
Sir Howie K. Elston, our reporter at large, sits down with Mister Veep.
Irish stew: Biden, Brexit, Boris and borders
Richard Lutz watches storm clouds gather over the Emerald Isle.
The Dickhead Tapes: Trump’s last words
Inside the White House bunker, with Sir Howard Elston.>
The Dickhead Tapes: Trump’s final pledge
Sir Howard Elston, our US editor, sits down with the president with one day to go.
An ill wind and a good suit
Richard Lutz recovers. Slowly ……
The grammar of a Warwickshire landscape
Richard Lutz saunters through a little path of heaven in the changing weather.
Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Lazuli Sky
Birmingham dance is back and it’s a joy, says Jessica Harris.
Voting early in the States
Richard Lutz carries out his electoral duties by email.
Kinver and the landscape of seeing
Richard Lutz wanders towards autumn.
Dickhead Tapes: When Bojo ‘misspoke’
Sir Howard Elston gives the lowdown on the background on Johnson’s big boo-boo.
Other tales from Birmingham
Richard Lutz goes for a lockdown stroll.
