Andy Burnham: blowback against the king of the north
How the mayor of Manchester became Labour’s enemy within
September 28 2025 / The Sunday Times
The Last Attlee: John Attlee and the long shadow of Clement Attlee
He is only 68 but his accent, courtesy and manner are redolent of a lost, more formal era – one of the provincial businessman, the family doctor, the trusted suburban bank manager, the bowler-hatted commuter
September 18 2025 / The New Statesman
James Graham: a nation in search of a story
If Britain was auditioning for the role of a national writer, the author of Dear England would be one of the standout candidates
September 11 2025 / The Sunday Times
A disastrous reset for Keir Starmer
Perhaps Angela Rayner’s fall - and the sweeping reshuffle it provoked – will, in retrospect, mark the moment Starmer finally changed direction and grasped the full scale of the problems facing the country in this new political era. Or perhaps not…
September 7 2025 / The Sunday Times
Christophe Guilluy: The Dispossessed
The French revolt: how the working class turned against the boho elites
September 4 2025 / The Sunday Times
Ministers are calling asylum a national emergency
The zeitgesit, or spirit of the age, determines a nation’s politics. The zeitgeist is not with Starmer’s Labour
August 23 2025 / The Sunday Times
Kevin Keegan's visions of the future
Keegan dominated the 1970s but was something altogether different and new: football’s first player-as-entrepreneur
August 6 2025 / The New Statesman
Letter from Epping: How one town became a "powder keg"
The protests in Epping about an “asylum hotel” reveal something fundamental about what Orwell called the social atmosphere of the country
July 26 2025 / The Sunday Times
Mark Hollis: Inside the Walled Garden
“All that matters are my records. I can’t live up to them, I can’t be as succinct and clear as they are.”
July 15 2025 / JasonCowley.net
What Keir Starmer can learn from Wimbledon
Telling a story and long-term thinking
July 9 2025 / The New Statesman
The London suicide bombings: 20 Years Later
How terror made the new future possible
July 7 2025 / The New Statesman
Letter from Wimbledon: Championed and then forgotten
Tennis comes home during an English summer heatwave
