Michael Howard’s Diary: Why I have no regrets over calling for Boris Johnson to resign
Oliver Dowden standing down as Conservative Party chair was a brave step and I didn’t want him to seem isolated.
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Lawrence Freedman’s Diary: My ban from entering Russia and memories of Cold War encounters with the KGB
I was last on the Kremlin’s most recent list of people to be sanctioned. This suggested I was something of…
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Graham Brady’s Diary: What the press got wrong about the confidence vote, and my very odd kind of celebrity
Press reports on how close I was to hearing from the requisite 54 Conservative MPs were almost always wide of…
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Paul Mason’s Diary: My bid to become a Labour MP and why we must not let Ukraine fade into the background
We are living through the worst crisis since the Second World War: everything must be reframed around the survival of…
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Fergal Keane’s Diary: My fears for Northern Ireland, confronting PTSD, and the dog that keeps me on an even keel
Belfast was my first encounter with the violence humans inflict on each other – I am gripped by anxiety for…
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Angela Rayner’s Diary: “The smear that I am behind Mailgate shows how desperate Tory MPs are”
The Labour deputy leader says she hopes experiences like hers don’t put young women off public life.
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Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Home-front warriors and Francis Bacon’s waning shock value
The spectacle of genuine horror unfolding in Ukraine throws into perspective our more synthetic outrages.
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Phil Jones’s Diary: Leaving Radio 2, the Queen’s favourite show, and why Gorbachev apologised to me
I’m certain that one person who does support the BBC is the Queen, who told me once that her favourite…
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