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An archive of Jason Cowley's column in the Sunday Mirror can be viewed here. The left's favourite Tories: Robert Peel Peel is best known as the creator of the modern police force; but I most admire him for his struggle to repeal the protectionist Corn Laws. New Statesman, October 6th 2011 Editor's Note — after Rowan Williams Jason Cowley on the fallout from the Archbishop of Canterbury's guest edit of the New Statesman. New Statesman, June 23rd 2011 Ed Miliband has a departure point and a destination, but no route map Miliband is torn between what he would like to do and what the conservatism of the wider political culture will allow him to do. New Statesman, May 12th 2011 A tale of two weddings The impending nuptials of Kate and Wills remind the New Statesman editor of another royal wedding 30 years ago. New Statesman, April 27th 2011 Jemima Khan, Julian Assange and the digitally savvy brain The New Statesman editor reflects on the other-worldly WikiLeaks frontman and Jemima Khan's extraordinary guest edit. New Statesman, April 20th 2011 Ethical dimensions of an interventionist foreign policy A fine essay by John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859, offers keen insight into the thinking behind the west’s UN-backed air strikes on Libya today. New Statesman, March 24th 2011 Where are today’s political intellectuals? Once, we had Gladstone and Disraeli. Now, we have Clegg and Cameron. New Statesman, February 10th 2011 Thunder Down Under And Tony’s Prose In spite of outward appearances... Australians often seem to me to be deeply anxious, unsure of their place in the world. New Statesman, December 29th 2010 What David Laws Knows But Won’t Say A draft Lib Dem document from May reveals that there was clear potential for a Lab-Lib coalition. So what happened? New Statesman, November 18th 2010 Liverpool, Room and Miliband Minor Whether Ed wins or loses, he has, from a standing start, established a significant power base. New Statesman, September 23rd 2010 The scandal of the lost generation Why are so many young people unable to get a job or a place at university? New Statesman, August 22nd 2010 The barbarism of Ahmadinejad's Iran What is it these fanatics fear about their women? New Statesman, August 15th 2010 George Orwell's 'ghost kingdom' of the poor is still here For all its wealth, London remains the most unequal region in England, with the highest child, working-age and pensioner poverty rates. Evening Standard, August 13th 2010 A Lib Dem alliance with Tories would be a betrayal There is a widespread sense of relief in the Labour Party. A year ago and 20 points behind in the polls, the party thought it was heading for a catastrophic defeat to the Conservatives. Sunday Mirror, May 9th 2010 The choice before Labour Labour needs to understand why so many of its natural supporters feel estranged from the party. The New Statesman, March 22nd 2010 Verdict Tony Blair is a great showman - the most talented actor-politician of modern times, with the exception of Bill Clinton. Sunday Mirror, January 31st 2010 'Putting wounded Brown out of his misery would be a disaster for the UK' The Prime Minister dismissed this week's bungled putsch against him as a "storm in a teacup". The reality is much more troubling for him and Labour. Sunday Mirror, January 10th 2010 'He must become the heavyweight he used to be' For much of the past 18 months Gordon Brown has resembled a great heavyweight champion who has spent too long in the ring. Sunday Mirror, January 3rd 2010 Here was peculiar grace The Indian elite blame Pakistan for the Mumbai attacks. They congratulate themselves on their restraint. But how long can it last? The New Statesman, January 22nd 2009 Naipaul, Orwell and Stamford Bridge [Patrick] French's [authorised biography of V S Naipaul, The World Is What It Is] is the finest book of its kind I have read. He shows us Naipaul as he really is: tortured, brilliant, harsh, contradictory, cruel, unforgiving, fearless, sexually tormented... The New Statesman, December 18th 2008 Editor's Letter Since the London bombings of July 7, 2005, in which fifty-two people were murdered in suicide attacks by Islamic terrorists, Britain has become a more troubled, less confident and harmonious country. Granta, 103, Autumn 2008 Editor's Letter When I used to think of nature writing, or indeed the nature writer, I would picture a certain kind of man, and it would always be a man: bearded, badly dressed, ascetic, misanthropic. Granta, 102, Summer 2008 Editor's Letter [Granta] had vitality and was engaging with the present moment in ways that so many other British publications were not. It had none of the parochialism, self-satisfaction and introversion one would have expected of a literary magazine. Granta, 101, Spring 2008 Granta in the Press Links to reviews of Granta 101. Granta, 101, Spring 2008 Books of the Year Collected New Statesman articles 1999-2007. New Statesman, December 2007 Comment: A cosy circle of critics? Nonsense Last week, the chairman of the Booker Prize judges complained about the nepotistic world of book reviews. But he missed a far greater problem besetting the modern publishing industry. The Observer, October 21st 2007 Between the Lines I thought of the writers by whom I would most like to read a new novel - Roth, JM Coetzee, Ian McEwan, Milan Kundera, Zadie Smith - I never thought of [Cormac] McCarthy. Then I read The Road, his latest, and astounding, novel. Prospect, June 2007 Down under, going Sideways A former hippy hangout in a remote corner of Western Australia, Margaret River has matured into a charming enclave of fine wines and food. The Observer, April 15th 2007 The comfort of strangers There is something far too conventional about the way books are reviewed and discussed in our newspapers and cultural magazines. Prospect, December 2006 Between the lines Robert Harris may be one of Britain's best rewarded popular novelists, but he remains a victim of literary snobbery, or so he thinks. Prospect, October 2006 Heroes of our time A hero of our time: where indeed shall we find one? New Statesman, April 3rd 2006 The Jason Cowley Column I have seldom met a writer who has been satisfied with a film adaptation of one of his or her novels or indeed a reader who feels that a favourite book has been well served by its transition from page to screen. www.waterstones.co.uk, March 2006 On Pleasure For me... pleasure is increasingly less about a heightening of self through intoxication, as I used to think, than a kind of release from self. The Observer, February 12th 2006 The Jason Cowley Column In the early weeks of February as our high street shops become cluttered with the paraphernalia and ephemera of the love industry, we are forced, often reluctantly, to confront the question of love. www.waterstones.co.uk, February 2006 The Jason Cowley Column Jason Cowley on how some novelists want to be characters in their own books. www.waterstones.co.uk, October 2005 Music: a journey from the centre of planet pop to the margins of the avant garde In March 2005, the journalist and literary critic Jason Cowley travelled to New York to meet David Sylvian for an article published in the Observer on 10 April. Their conversation continued over email. |
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