Rafael Nadal: king of Paris

There’s something especially poignant about the last days of a tennis champion. The technical brilliance, discipline and will to win remain but the body is much less accommodating

May 8 2025 / The New Statesman

"Forgotten Man" holds the keys to the country. Will the PM use Blair to find him?

​The row over net zero is a sign of how damaging to the party is the divide between urban progressives and its traditional voters

May 3 2025 / The Sunday Times

Lawrence Newport: Against system failure

​He led the campaign to ban the XL Bully, at great personal cost, and now wants to crush crime

April 30 2025 / The New Statesman

Nigel Farage: why his rivals rightly fear him

​Denouncing Reform UK as a racist party will only mobilise the people’s army

April 19 2025 / The Sunday Times

The rise of Hard Labour

​For better or worse, Keir Starmer leads a security government

April 13 2025 / The Sunday Times

Notebook: As the literary novel fades from relevance, James Graham is the writer for our era

​The triumph of the screen and disappearance of the serious reader

March 26 2025 / The New Statesman

The two faces of Labour

​The tension between soft left progressivism and a harder-edged, more conservative politics of security which defines this new emerging era, runs like a fault line through Labour

March 23 2025 / The Sunday Times

Why boxing is a beautiful sickness

​Donald McRae’s The Last Bell: a study in obsession and a sad farewell to the fight game

March 16 2025 / The Sunday Times

The runaway state

The world is in a Seventies-style flux, but can Labour “think the unthinkable” as the Thatcherites did?

March 15 2025 / The Sunday Times

Letter from Poland: Is the UK so poor that it cannot afford the British Council?

CEO Scott McDonald on soft power and an imperilled institution

March 12 2025 / The New Statesman

The New Realism: rearmanent in an age of raw power

​The era of progressive hegemony is over

March 2 2025 / The Sunday Times

Angela Rayner: Out of nowhere

​The deputy prime minister is, unlike many of her senior colleagues, not a working class Oxbridge meritocrat. Her rise is much more interesting than that

February 16 2025 / The Sunday Times