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
July 6 2025 / The Sunday Times
The Loneliness of Rachel Reeves
Tears are not enough
July 5 2025 / The Sunday Times
John Healey: The hardman of the cabinet
The defence secretary prepares for war
June 4 2025 / The New Statesman
The Severed Alliance: "The north of England could go up in flames"
All political parties are coalitions, but Keir Starmer leads a party that at some deep, fundamental level is broken
June 1 2025 / The Sunday Times
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