Christopher Hitchens obituary
Maverick, polemical journalist whose career was a rollercoaster of love and loathingFor most of his career, Christopher Hitchens, who has died of oesophageal cancer aged 62, was the left's biggest journalistic star, writing and broadcasting with wit,...
A Walk-On Part by Chris Mullin
There is much to enjoy in Chris Mullin's diaries of his influential years before his time in officeWho says that politics and politicians have become boring? The late Alan Clark's diaries were turned into TV drama; now, from the Labour side, Chris Mull...
Nick Clegg: The Biography
A biography of the Liberal Democrat leader doesn't quite explain his spectacular fall from graceJust before the 2010 general election, Cleggmania was at such a pitch that 2,000 people stood outside Sheffield city hall to acclaim the Liberal Democrat le...
Ian Botham by Simon Wilde – review
A flawed genius and a national treasureThe most treasured memories in sport come from victories that are achieved when all seems lost. Cricket provides more such reversals of fortune than most games. That explains why Sir Ian Botham (oddly, the knighth...
Peter Wilby: ‘Anybody who studies Blair is forced to the conclusion that what is really at the core of him is Christianity’
The New Statesman and Guardian writer gives his verdict on Tony Blair's memoirTony Blair was always the most mysterious of Britain's prime ministers, largely because, before he became Labour leader, he had never, unless you count assistant secretary of...
