John McTernan
John McTernan is a political strategist and commentator. He was prime minister Tony Blair’s director of political operations 2005-2007
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
Making the hard choices
Tony Blair was right to take on the Taliban after 9/11
Five Rules for Ruling
There’s no problem with a witchhunt when there really are witches
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own