Bevan Lewis’s Reviews > A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 > Status Update

The new era of a fresh Labour government begins with a currency crisis (and the launch of “Crossroads” on TV)

The Beatles please at the Royal Variety Performance

As David Frost wrote later, the Profumo Affair marked a tipping point where “the Establishment had been caught with its pants down and, unable to hide, was standing red-faced as everyone else fell about laughing. Game, set and match to satire!”