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Martin Fletcher is a former foreign editor of the Times and a New Statesman magazine contributing writer and online columnist.
The UCL professor and author believes Covid-19 offers only a "small glimpse" of our possible future.
Cronies, controversialists, cricketers – and of course, his brother – join a second chamber that is now more than eight times the size of the US Senate.
Unable to respond to the crises in public health and the economy, Johnson has reverted to the divisive rhetoric of the pre-Covid era.
Johnson’s government shamelessly scapegoats to deflect blame for its own shortcomings.
The mediocre, time-serving, wayward and sleazy survive as long as they blindly support the Prime Minister.
Keir Starmer’s best hope of becoming prime minister is for the Lib Dems to deny the Conservatives an outright majority.
The six months that shook the UK.
Downing Street is destroying the civil service’s precious neutrality in pursuit of a destructive “revolution”.
At a moment of national crisis we are ruled by an unprincipled prime minister obsessed with slogans over substance.
The Prime Minister helped fuel the ugly divisions and hatred now seen on our streets.
