James Rebanks’s Diary: Drought in England, sweat in Italy, and what Liz Truss gets wrong about farming
Somehow we have to feed everyone without trashing the landscapes our food comes from.
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Iain Dale’s Diary: My week at the Edinburgh Fringe, and a spellbinding chat with Angela Rayner
Still recovering from a bad fall, I hosted live podcast shows at the festival wearing a rather magnificent burgundy suit.
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Ian Hislop’s Diary: The talented Mr Pooter, Spike Milligan’s chaos, and heaven vs Lewisham
I considered starting this diary: “Very hot. Today was a day of annoyance. Boris Johnson has not left No 10…
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Nicola Sturgeon’s Diary: Why Westminster must let Scotland choose its destiny
As we put our plans for a new independence vote to the Supreme Court, the UK government continues to deny…
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Michael Howard’s Diary: Why I have no regrets over calling for Boris Johnson to resign
Oliver Dowden standing down as Conservative Party chair was a brave step and I didn’t want him to seem isolated.
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Lawrence Freedman’s Diary: My ban from entering Russia and memories of Cold War encounters with the KGB
I was last on the Kremlin’s most recent list of people to be sanctioned. This suggested I was something of…
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Graham Brady’s Diary: What the press got wrong about the confidence vote, and my very odd kind of celebrity
Press reports on how close I was to hearing from the requisite 54 Conservative MPs were almost always wide of…
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Paul Mason’s Diary: My bid to become a Labour MP and why we must not let Ukraine fade into the background
We are living through the worst crisis since the Second World War: everything must be reframed around the survival of…
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