Paul Staines

Inside the BBC’s Trump-bashing Reith Lecture 

19 November 2025 4:50 am

A few weeks ago, I received an invitation from Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, to listen to Rutger Bregman deliver…

In Mumbai, everyone asks about Rishi and Boris

7 December 2024 9:00 am

Mumbai is my kind of town, a party town. In my first weeks living here, I was out most nights…

The Russian spy who went to all the Tory parties

17 March 2018 9:00 am

I first met Sergey Nalobin in 2012 at Soho House. He introduced himself, in accented English, as from the Russian…

All the usual suspects

6 September 2014 9:00 am

Owen Jones’s first book, Chavs, was a political bestseller. This follow-up skips over the middle classes and goes to the…