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
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice