Jason Cowley

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Jason Cowley

The era of the so-called Big Three in men’s tennis is finally ending. Roger Federer, winner of 20 Grand Slam titles, retired aged 41 in 2022. Rafael Nadal, the subject of this new book and winner of 22 Grand Slam titles, was forced through injury to retire at the age of 38 last autumn.

1 week ago | newstatesman.com | Jason Cowley

On a warm day in June last year, I accompanied Nigel Farage as he campaigned for the general election in Clacton, Frinton and Jaywick on the Essex coast.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Jason Cowley

2 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Jason Cowley

One spring afternoon in 2023, Lawrence Newport was out walking his dog in a local park in south London when he saw what he initially thought were two pit bull terriers hanging from a tree. He moved closer. “They were triple the size of a pit bull and were gripping a branch,” Newport, who was working as a law lecturer at Royal Holloway, told me.

3 weeks ago | newstatesman.com | Jason Cowley

Mixing his metaphors, during a speech in Darlington on 19 April, Nigel Farage announced that he was “parking our tanks on the lawn of Labour’s Red Wall”. To translate: he is coming for Labour voters and Reform UK is confident of making significant gains in the local elections in England on 1 May; the anti-system party is also hopeful of winning the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, which Farage claims is Labour’s 16th safest seat (it is in fact the 49th), on the same day.