Sir Keir Starmer – he’s all heart, you know. Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
‘It was everything I feared’
From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers. Continue reading
This is not America
In foreign affairs there’s only one question that matters: Are you on the right side of history? Continue reading
2020 Politician of the Year (dead)
Boris Johnson has chosen the wrong lodestar. He should look to an earlier wartime premier. Continue reading
2020 Politician of the Year (decomposing)
The return of our award for the politician throwing it all away. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #2: Woodrow Wyatt
Was Wyatt’s fiction as colourful as his diaries? wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
‘I’m quite cool’ – Sadiq Khan
Mayor Sadiq Khan: a career in 55 quotes. Continue reading
Me and baby brother
PAUL SAFFER revisits the memoirs of Terry Major-Ball, older brother to a former Prime Minister. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #1: Robert Kilroy-Silk
From 1983, it’s Kilroy’s dystopian vision of 2020. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
‘Smashing things’
Do you remember when the Left was split between generations? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
Never too Sunak
Rishi Sunak has risen without trace. How should Boris Johnson respond, wonders PAUL SAFFER. Continue reading
A whisper to the wise
Prime ministers’ sidekicks – do they always have to cause so much trouble? asks PAUL SAFFER Continue reading
