political biography

Is Keir Starmer really Morgan McSweeney’s puppet?

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Two lobby journalists portray the PM as the pawn of ‘the Irishman’ and as ‘a passenger on a train driven by others’ – but there is much more to Starmer than that

Mission accomplished

12 March 2022 9:00 am

Nigel Farage was never even an MP, but Michael Crick argues convincingly that he is one of the top five…

A great public servant

25 July 2020 9:00 am

This is a strange but valuable book. The author is a private equity magnate, whose fascination for Richard Burdon Haldane…

Driving force

4 July 2020 9:00 am

Alan Johnson pays tribute to Ernest Bevin, a towering political figure too often forgotten