The Caretaker prime minister: Keir Starmer goes on, but for how much longer?
Angela Rayner's next move has the Labour Party on tenterhooks
December 7 2025 / The Sunday Times
The paranoid style
With every reset and reversal, the prime minister sends his party deeper into confusion and anxiety
November 16 2025 / The Sunday Times
The Permacrisis
Since the so-called botched reset in early September, Starmer has been presiding over a state of perma-crisis, debilitating for the government and for the country
November 8 2025 / The Sunday Times
Gareth Southgate: Dear England: lessons in leadership
The former England football manager changed the culture of the team - and the country
November 6 2025 / The Sunday Times
Anthony Barnett: The Restless Radical
What the 1960s Left got wrong - and right
November 6 2025 / The New Statesman
Progressivism and the politics of a dead era
As the old order crumbles in Europe something new, dangerous and more volatile replaces it
October 26 2025 / The Sunday Times
Tony Blair: a Machiavellian prince hustling for influence in the court of King Donald
Gaza, Trump and a former prime minister relishing his second act on the world stage
October 18 2025 / The Sunday Times
Margaret Thatcher at 100 and the crisis of conservatism
The long shadow of the Conservatives' greatest post-war prime minister
October 5 2025 / The Sunday Times
Andy Burnham: blowback against the king of the north
How the mayor of Manchester became Labour’s enemy within
September 28 2025 / The Sunday Times
The Last Attlee: John Attlee and the long shadow of Clement Attlee
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
September 18 2025 / The New Statesman
James Graham: a nation in search of a story
If Britain was auditioning for the role of a national writer, the author of Dear England would be one of the standout candidates
September 11 2025 / The Sunday Times
A disastrous reset for Keir Starmer
Perhaps Angela Rayner’s fall - and the sweeping reshuffle it provoked – will, in retrospect, mark the moment Starmer finally changed direction and grasped the full scale of the problems facing the country in this new political era. Or perhaps not...
