Reviews

​The former England football manager changed the culture of the team - and the country

6th November 2025 / The Sunday Times

​The French revolt: how the working class turned against the boho elites 

4th September 2025 / The Sunday Times

Keegan dominated the 1970s but was something altogether different and new: football’s first player-as-entrepreneur

6th August 2025 / The New Statesman

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

8th May 2025 / The New Statesman

​Donald McRae's The Last Bell: a study in obsession and a sad farewell to the fight game 

16th March 2025 / The Sunday Times

​The Labour leader is utterly ruthless but what does he want to do with power?

9th February 2025 / The Sunday Times

​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

19th January 2025 / The Sunday Times

​Nether left nor right but occupying the “hard centre”

16th June 2024 / The Sunday Times

London is not Britain 

5th May 2024 / The Observer

How the first Labour government - of 1924 - shattered the old political order

21st January 2024 / The Sunday Times

​As war rages in Ukraine, the football club that is “more than a club”

1st October 2023 / The Sunday Times

AI, the Hobbesian state and the professor who wants to be a big picture thinker 

10th September 2023 / The Sunday Times

​What comes after liberalism? 

16th July 2023 / The Sunday Times

From an East End council flat to Westminster: Labour's rising star 

2nd July 2023 / The Sunday Times

James Graham is fast becoming our national playwright - for these troubled modern times, at least 

28th June 2023 / The New Statesman

​The search for the soul of a misunderstood English county

4th June 2023 / The Sunday Times

Chairing the judges of the Baillie Gifford winner of winners' award and a case of mistaken identity 

3rd May 2023 / The New Statesman

The last interview - an audio long read 

9th April 2023 / The New Statesman

​A biographer searches for the mysterious former Talk Talk frontman who created music of beauty and grace

4th May 2022 / The New Statesman

As Margaret Thatcher’s political revolution unfolded, a group of style-obsessed misfits brightened troubled times.

28th October 2020 / New Statesman