Diary
My part in Jair Bolsonaro’s downfall
Rio de Janeiro When I first began writing about politics in 2005, my Brazilian husband, David Miranda, was…
It’s good to be back on the back benches
After the shale gas vote, I was literally sent to Coventry – to visit the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. It…
Inside the Booker Prize
It’s been a great week for the powerful fantasies of fiction (see more below), but over the weekend no novel…
Putin should fear those closest to him
I was interested to see that amid the Byzantine intrigues of embattled Conservative panjandrums, two Spice Girls have criticised the…
I feel sorry for Kwasi Kwarteng
In Singapore last week, I was asked: do ministers just come in, reach for the dumbest available policy and go…
War has come home to Russia
Moscow A week of somewhat mixed messages from the Kremlin. One day Vladimir Putin opened Europe’s largest Ferris wheel…