Keir Starmer's lack of "vision" and "narrative" has become a cliche at this point. But this isn't just a PR problem. It has a real cost - in muddled hiring decisions and Whitehall not knowing what is it the PM actually wants to do. My @thetimes.com column www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🔎 Analysis: Labour MPs had hoped he’d take the fight to Nigel Farage by now. But here comes the budget … and, hanging over everything, the small boats crisis ⬇️

Went on The Times podcast to talk about the Green Party leadership race and the new energy mustering on the left of British politics

A world class piece of reporting from the streets of Haiti by Louise Callaghan. Heartrending, terrifying, quietly furious www.thetimes.com/world/latin-...

For today's @thetimes.com read, I spoke to Labour MPs ahead of a seismic autumn for Starmer. The mood is ... existential 'It’s been a bizarrely quiet summer' 'I’m staggered by the lack of direction' 'It can’t carry on at this pace. It’s not sustainable' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

In June 2022, Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Fern received an early police knock at their Singapore apartment. They flew to London and claimed asylum. But why had the son of Lee Kuan Yew fled his own country? They tell their full story here, for the first time www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

The PM tells Josh Glancy it is "total bollocks" that Morgan McSweeney (not Keir Starmer) is in charge of the Starmer project www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.

Ukraine’s destruction of expensive warplanes with simple flying bombs was Russia’s Pearl Harbor moment. The technology is changing faster than you think

Is ChatGPT destroying the university degree as we know it? Or can it be harnessed for good? On the cover of this week's News Review is an excellent if terrifying report, by @louise-eccles.bsky.social and @lottiemayhayton.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Oh this is awful - Pembrokeshire Council are trying (successfully so far) to close down this wonderful restaurant I reviewed only last Sunday. If you have visited, think you might want to, or just care about good restaurants, please do write to the address they advise.

My op-ed yesterday in @thetimes.com Tariffs, of course. www.thetimes.com/article/8e80...

On the cover of today's News Review, Andrew Sullivan reflects on 100 days of Trump's "vengeful monarchy" www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

"By questioning so many of the assumptions and arrangements that underpin our international order, America’s current president is holding up a mirror and forcing us to examine our own souls" | ✍️ @joshglancy.bsky.social

Yorkshire is the Texas of Britain. Correct opinion from @charlotteivers.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

Trump's chaos is stress testing our entire way of life. But if we can pass the test, we may yet emerge stronger My Sunday Times column www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

For my @jewishnews.bsky.social column, I've written about how relations have collapsed between Britain's Jewish and Muslim communities, why this is a problem and what might be done about it www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-jewi...

For my @jewishnews.bsky.social column, I've written about how relations have collapsed between Britain's Jewish and Muslim communities, why this is a problem and what might be done about it www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-jewi...

Russian sensors trying to track nuclear submarines have been found in a campaign of ‘greyzone’ warfare that also targets our energy and internet. Even oligarchs’ superyachts are in on it

Who is the real JD Vance? A man who could ' deliver on the promise of Trumpism' better than Trump, says @joshglancy.bsky.social ⬇️ 🎙️ The Story podcast 🗣️ @jonesluke.bsky.social 🔗 pod.fo/e/2bcff1

In pursuit of Britain’s favourite food: the chicken wing (no paywall) www.thetimes.com/article/99e5...

Today's News Review cover is a fascinating interview with Sarah Wynn-Williams, discussing her explosive Facebook memoir with Ros Urwin. The interview was conducted just before Meta injuncted Sarah and prevented her from speaking. It is free to read. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

If you liked Chiwetel Ejiofor's Mr Walliker in Bridget Jones, meet the man behind him, my favourite history teacher as a young kid and someone who lifted me out of a deep childhood slump. Teachers really can do remarkable things www.thetimes.com/article/5f1a...

Dominic Cummings on Boris Johnson. From @joshglancy.bsky.social’s riveting interview. Too good. www.thetimes.com/article/5177...

Fascinating interview with Dominic Cummings from @joshglancy.bsky.social today www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Dozens of men in balaclavas rampaged through farmland and threatened villagers to create an arena for their illegal blood sport — so why didn’t officers respond?

Love this Roisin Kelly interview with Livia Firth, who is remarkably chipper for someone whose business got hacked, scammed and liquidated, had breast cancer and a divorce and a stalking issue, and yet is somehow still smiling www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger. He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers" (Free to read) www.thetimes.com/article/5177...

Superb interview with Dominic Cummings by @joshglancy.bsky.social includes this par which i cannot stop reading www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Dominic Cummings confirms he advised Jeremy Corbyn's team on Brexit – revealed in GET IN – via Josh Glancy in the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I interviewed Dominic Cummings about Musk, Trump, Brexit and William Pitt the Younger. He also spoke publicly for the first time about why he brought down Boris Johnson, comparing it to "cleaning the sewers" (Free to read) www.thetimes.com/article/5177...

Last week I sat down with the families of Bebe King,6, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, who lost their lives in the attack in Southport last year, to hear about their daughters, and why they were so loved. This is their story - www.thetimes.com/article/8f5e...

Ceasefire in Gaza offers a moment to pause and assess what just happened. My Jewish News column asks four difficult questions about the war that I think supporters of Israel should be asking themselves, from targeting protocols to prison abuse. www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-josh...

In the summer of 2023, Ali Travis wrote a wonderfully eloquent piece about learning to live with terminal brain cancer at 32. Ali died last week, having shown quite remarkable grace and courage and wit. His final reflections in that piece are words to live by

In the summer of 2023, Ali Travis wrote a wonderfully eloquent piece about learning to live with terminal brain cancer at 32. Ali died last week, having shown quite remarkable grace and courage and wit. His final reflections in that piece are words to live by

Great piece on how difficult Brexit has made life for British exporters to Europe. In this case, sending a hunk of cheddar from Devon to Paris … via Preston (free to read) www.thetimes.com/article/604c...

Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In The Sunday Times, we republish the final pages of Primo Levi's If This is a Man. It is an extraordinary read www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

I’ve spent the past 48 hours in Tel Aviv, talking to hostage families suspended between hope and terror. Never known anything quite like it. Here's my piece for tomorrow's Sunday Times, free to read www.thetimes.com/article/893a...

The picture of an African woman giving birth on a dinghy in the Atlantic shocked the world this week. Incredible reporting by Richard Assheton to find her in Lanzarote and tell her story. Her name is Awa Keita, an 18-year-old from Mali. Her daughter is Aisha www.thetimes.com/world/africa...

Best thing about my job is every now and again you come across a restaurant that is truly joyful and deserves a thousand times more exposure, and you get to give a bit of that. Chapel Market Kitchen, in Angel, Islington, is one of those restaurants. www.thetimes.com/article/ffa9...

Since 2021, The Sunday Times's Alternative Honours list has become an annual tradition. It's one of my favourite pieces of the year. This edition honours everyone from Gisele Pelicot to Nicola Thorp www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

WWE is booming again, but does wrestling really explain Trump? Why have Netflix spent *$5bn* on live rights? To answer these questions, I spent a few months reviving old childhood fantasies, including a trip to Summerslam, for The Sunday Times Magazine www.thetimes.com/article/fa54...

Paddington and Bond, two halves of the British soul, currently out of kilter. My slightly off the wall Sunday Times column from today www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...