Alan Johnson

The best children’s books: a Spectator Christmas survey

18 December 2021 9:00 am

J.K. Rowling Poignant, funny and genuinely scary, The Hundred and One Dalmatians was one of my favourite books as a…

Suspicious circumstances abound in the latest crime fiction

11 December 2021 9:00 am

The old adage that everyone has a novel in them has a new version: anyone can write a thriller. Celebrity…

There’s only one Alan Johnson (that's why Labour's in such trouble)

15 November 2014 9:00 am

Labour voters feel hope and despair; hope, because the Tories are doing no better than we, and despair, for that…