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
Power play: Cummings, McSweeney and the Wizard of the Kremlin
Has Labour arrived in power at exactly the wrong time for its brand of progressive centre-left politics?
February 10 2025 / The New Statesman
Keir Starmer: The anti-politics politician
The Labour leader is utterly ruthless but what does he want to do with power?
February 9 2025 / The Sunday Times
Dan Carden: The return of Blue Labour
Moving “from left to left”: How the grooming gangs scandal prompted one MP to act
February 8 2025 / The Sunday Times
Robert Kaplan: A pessimist's guide to the future
The American journalist supported the Iraq war - until he watched the carnage unfold. Now he advocates a policy of “tragic realism” for our chaotic era
January 19 2025 / The Sunday Times
Labour's Trump problem
The energy in western politics is with the populist right
December 29 2024 / The Sunday Times
The first 100 days
Even Labour veterans are calling it the worst start by a government in their lifetime
December 22 2024 / The Sunday Times
Signing Off: Lives and Letters
For one more time, for one last time: 10 memorable pieces from my editorship, 2008-2024, essays, commentary, poetry, fiction, interviews
