A strange week, at turns uplifting, unsettling, joyous and bemusing. And yet, as I put to bed another issue of the magazine, I find myself filled with a sense of sadness and menacing fear for the future. Let’s start with the uplifting bit. My week began i... See more
“I hope you’re doing more than scratching your chin on this lovely bank holiday weekend,” came the first joshing message on Sunday. Others followed suit. My friends were teasing me after I had appeared in a walk-on role in an excellent profile of Andy Bur... See more
Covering British politics today is to be trapped somewhere between despair, horror, outrage and intrigue. We have been in this position for ten years, rotating our cast of premiers, each thrust into the same tempest, each unable to calm it. Perhaps this i... See more
In early 2020, not long after Boris Johnson’s landslide election victory, I took a road trip through the American Midwest to try to understand the similarities between Donald Trump’s Rust Belt and the Red Wall constituencies back home that had just flippe... See more
On the face of it, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, is one of the most inoffensive politicians imaginable. A middle-of-the-road social democrat who believes in human rights, international law and public services, and who, as prime minister, has n... See more
