Here in Israel people feel deeply unsafe and the two-state solution looks doomed
“Nothing is personally OK for anyone”
March 20 2024 / The New Statesman
Rachel Reeves: is securonomics really Bidenism but without the money?
At the end of the 1970s, as the post-war order crumbled, the Thatcherites had a radical solution to the political and economic crisis in which Britain was mired. Can Reeves, with her talk of new orthodoxies, effect a similar transformation today?
March 17 2024 / The Sunday Times
John Tavener: sacred music for a secular world
Why does the secular mind seek out the sacred, often at moments of heightened stress or torment?
February 14 2024 / The New Statesman
Labour has a Palestinian problem
The Arab Street and the politics of Israel-Palestine have arrived in British cities
February 4 2024 / The Sunday Times
Ramsay MacDonald and The Wild Men of Labour
How the first Labour government - of 1924 - shattered the old political order
January 21 2024 / The Sunday Times
Kate Forbes: The Rooted Nomad
Will the SNP’s Kate Forbes ultimately be forced to choose between politics and God?
December 6 2023 / The New Statesman
Wayne Barnes: sport, the courtroom and social media hate
As an international rugby referee, the English lawyer has faced sustained abuse and death threats. Now he is fighting back against the negligence of the tech giants
December 1 2023 / The New Statesman
Rachel Reeves: is she trapped?
Haunted by the traumatic defeat of 1992, Labour is boxed in on tax-and-spend
November 26 2023 / The Sunday Times
Caution and fear define Labour
After a long party civil war, the moderates are in control. But what will they do with power?
October 8 2023 / The Sunday Times
Shaktar Donetsk: The Barcelona of the East
As war rages in Ukraine, the football club that is “more than a club”
October 1 2023 / The Sunday Times
David Runciman: The Handover
AI, the Hobbesian state and the professor who wants to be a big picture thinker
September 10 2023 / The Sunday Times
The Green Wars
Will divisive net zero politics become the new Brexit?