“They’ve got to know that if they come here, they won’t stay here.” Nigel Farage? Robert Jenrick? Suella Braverman? Not on this occasion. These hostile words about refugees coming...
Not far from me, in the lovely Leicestershire village of Nevil Holt, for some reason a replica of the notorious 'Ed Stone' has been erected in a churchyard. It's...
We hardly need reminding that Brexit is barely living up to the ideal of the buccaneering “global Britain” we were promised. Right now, it’s more like a clown show....
There’s a memorable moment in Meet the Rees-Moggs — which, given the otherworldliness of its principal characters, is probably best described as “unreality television” — when Jacob Rees-Mogg is...
John Prescott was a nice man and an underestimated wit. I once worked as a researcher on my late colleague Colin Brown’s biography of him, Fighting Talk, published in...
Donald Trump has a complicated relationship with Vladimir Putin, to say the least. Not so long ago, during his first term as president, he seemed to like and admire...
Associate Editor of the Independent.
