Ukraine must stand as a fortress of European freedom
It is 35 years since I was last in Warsaw and the city is unrecognisable. Back then it was grimy…
Starmer must embrace the Thatcher paradox
Most of the people I deal with outside government agree that Darren Jones, whom Keir Starmer has just appointed as…
Keir Starmer, conservative prime minister?
According to Keir Starmer’s critics, the Prime Minister has spent his first six months in office re-enacting Henry VIII’s plunder of the monasteries,…
What confronting my own mortality taught me about assisted dying
It was when my newly-implanted bone marrow failed to produce the blood cells that keep all of us alive that…
Why it’s time to vote Labour
Most people don’t belong to a political tribe. They vote pragmatically. When an election comes round, they ask themselves how…
