Columns

After a long party civil war, the moderates are in control. But what will they do with power?

8th October 2023 / The Sunday Times

Scottish showdown is a seminal moment for Starmer 

24th September 2023 / The Sunday Times

​Will divisive net zero politics become the new Brexit?

13th August 2023 / The Sunday Times

Why is Keir Starmer so anxious? It's because Labour are used to losing. Defeat defines the party

16th July 2023 / The Sunday Times

​The nationalists believe their interests and those of the Scottish people are coterminous. They are not.

12th April 2023 / The New Statesman

​In 2013, few could have predicted the political convulsions to come

12th April 2023 / The New Statesman

The liberal delusion of remaking the world 

15th March 2023 / The New Statesman

​The search for security and respect in an age of disorder 

1st March 2023 / The New Statesman

​Her fall offers little reason for unionist triumphalism  

22nd February 2023 / The New Statesman

Will breaking up the United Kingdom bring us closer together? 

Plus, Eric Ravilious and deep England 

8th December 2022 / The New Statesman

​A broken and humiliated Conservative party turns back to Jeremy Hunt


19th October 2022 / The New Statesman

What Sunak and Truss are getting wrong about Brexit

27th July 2022 / The New Statesman

​In 2019, Boris Johnson had everything he wanted after winning the general election. But the gods were waiting for him

13th July 2022 / The New Statesman

Jason Cowley on an era of extraordinary politics


7th July 2022 / The Royal Society of Arts (RSA)

​The English Question: Who are we now, after Brexit, in these pandemic times? 

8th December 2021 / The New Statesman

Twenty years after the US invasion, the Taliban are preparing to retake control of the country

28th July 2021 / The New Statesman

Why the England manager understands the real meaning of glory 

8th June 2021 / The New Statesman

​The fallen intellectuals 

18th November 2020 / New Statesman

​Sub-prime degrees and elite overproduction 

22nd July 2020 / New Statesman

The prime minister stokes the flames of the culture wars

17th June 2020 / New Statesman