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 immobile prince
Political chaos masks the stagnation of French economic life
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
Waugh at war
Self-sacrifice, tradition and service seem to have been cast aside by today’s society
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
A lawyer in Number 10
What of prime minister-in-waiting Keir Starmer’s views on legal issues?
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm