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 soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
Artificially Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material is not a victimless crime
The often-raised theory that AI-CSAM is harmless or can even make children safer, must be quashed
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Britain must reindustrialise
A truly conservative economics must prioritise making, not speculating
The fall of the House of Rejoin
A popular cause has withered into an elitist dinner club
Infected blood and infected institutions
Decades on from the beginning of the infected blood scandal, our institutions still fail to align themselves with the truth
Reasons to be cheerful
Ten things that are wonderful about British racing
Murders for July
The most gripping and grisly detective novels of the month, from Devon to Orkney
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender