The Weekend Interview

Neil Kinnock: “It’s not 1992. Rishi Sunak is no John Major”

The former Labour leader on life after his wife Glenys’s death, Keir Starmer’s election strategy, and becoming Joe Biden’s “greatest…

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Germany’s political crisis is a warning for Keir Starmer.

By Wolfgang Streeck

The author, film-maker and former Wandsworth inmate on why we should all care about our broken prison system.

By Rachel Cunliffe

The US economist on why he’s bullish about Britain, the potential of AI and what Liz Truss got right.

By George Eaton

The Reform UK leader on why rather than doing a deal with the Conservatives, he plans to help defeat them.

By Rachel Cunliffe

The Israeli military strategist on how 7 October happened, Israel’s endgame in Gaza and the prospect of a regional war.

By Harry Lambert

The political scientist Randall Hansen argues that the 1973 Opec embargo changed economies for ever and fuelled mass migration.

By Will Dunn

America’s most feared literary agent on his friend Salman Rushdie, what Sally Rooney taught him, and how he has thrived…

By Harry Lambert