John Preston
John Preston is the author of A Very English Scandal. The film of his novel, The Dig, is due in the autumn. His next book Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, is published next February
More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
