How did a prime minister who won a landslide become the most unpopular in modern times? 

Vote Burnham, Get Starmer Out: all roads lead to Wigan 

Supporting a football team, if you are a true fan, is a deep, emotional commitment and unbreakable, enduring for better or worse through the decades, an invisible chain connecting who you are today with the child you used to be

Dominated by technology, ruled by the smartphone, shadowed by war and saturated by a constant stream of pornographic and violent images: our world feels ever more Ballardian

There are few more self-righteous politicians than Starmer, the career lawyer and former director of public prosecutions. He sees himself as an honest man, a man of rules. If he makes mistakes, they are honest mistakes. So when the leader of the opposition calls him a liar she strikes at the very core of who he is and believes himself to be

After May, nationalist secessionist parties could, for the first time, be in power in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. That’s something entirely new in British politics. What if the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein start to coordinate and lead a Celtic rebellion against Westminster?

An appreciation of the elusive Talk Talk frontman; originally published following news of his death in February 2019. (I will publish the transcript from my conversation with Hollis soon once I have digitised the tape.)  See also: Mark Hollis: Inside the Walled Garden https://www.jasoncowley.net/ar...

Once outliers on the centre-left, the Social Democrats are now a model for defeating the hard right with Europe’s toughest immigration system