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
