Profiles

From Remain-supporting moderate Cameroon to Reform's latest recruit

17th January 2026 / The Sunday Times

What the 1960s Left got wrong - and right 

6th November 2025 / The New Statesman

He is only 68 but his accent, courtesy and manner are redolent of a lost, more formal era – one of the provincial businessman, the family doctor, the trusted suburban bank manager, the bowler-hatted commuter 

18th September 2025 / The New Statesman

If Britain was auditioning for the role of a national writer, the author of Dear England would be one of the standout candidates

11th September 2025 / The Sunday Times

​The defence secretary prepares for war 

4th June 2025 / The New Statesman

​He led the campaign to ban the XL Bully, at great personal cost, and now wants to crush crime

30th April 2025 / The New Statesman

CEO Scott McDonald on soft power and an imperilled institution

12th March 2025 / The New Statesman

​Moving “from left to left”: How the grooming gangs scandal prompted one MP to act

8th February 2025 / The Sunday Times

He is one of the most successful people in the UK, a master of reinvention, and yet is hated by some. Why does being Gary Lineker mean being hated at all?

5th December 2024 / The New Statesman

​Exclusive interview: The billionaire philanthropist’s warning to the world

28th November 2024 / The New Statesman

Farage calls himself the Billy Graham of politics and believes he has done more than anyone else to defeat the far right in Britain. What forces does he channel but also hold in check and how far can he take Reform, the non-party party, or self-styled people’s army? Now, he says, he’s coming for Labour voters

26th June 2024 / The New Statesman

​Britain's next Foreign Secretary on the new realism and why Britain must adapt to the world as it is, not as liberals or the left wish it to be

26th June 2024 / The New Statesman

​Will the SNP's Kate Forbes ultimately be forced to choose between politics and God? 

6th December 2023 / The New Statesman

As an international rugby referee, the English lawyer has faced sustained abuse and death threats. Now he is fighting back against the negligence of the tech giants

1st December 2023 / The New Statesman

The multidimensional Spanish player is a talent for the ages

15th July 2023 / The Sunday Times

She is ready to be Britain's first female chancellor of the Exchequer.
But will Rachel Reeves' caution stifle her creativity? 

7th June 2023 / The New Statesman

The Scottish tennis player has achieved a late-career grandeur

21st January 2023 / The New Statesman

​The former New Statesman editor who came to hate the Left

18th January 2023 / The New Statesman

Munira Mirza, once known as “Boris Johnson’s brain”, is a liberal contrarian whose views have been widely condemned. But now in her new role she wants to avoid controversy and change the way we do politics

9th November 2022 / The New Statesman

The philosopher who never stopped asking ultimate questions

28th July 2021 / The New Statesman