Tom Baldwin

Nov 28, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tom Baldwin

This is not the first time a moral debate about helping people die has landed on Sir Keir Starmer’s desk with such a weighty thud that it threatens to send everything else flying. In 2008, just a month after becoming director of public prosecutions, he dealt with the traumatic case of a young man left permanently paralysed by a rugby injury who had chosen to end his life in Switzerland.

Nov 21, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tom Baldwin

Just days after this year’s general election, Tony Blair hosted a conference on the future of Britain where he was asked by an artificial intelligence entrepreneur what advice he had for the incoming government. “I’m advising them to talk to you,” came the reply. The person asking the question was Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind and a Nobel prizewinning scientist.

Nov 13, 2024 | msn.com | Tom Baldwin

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Nov 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Tom Baldwin

The only time I have met Kemi Badenoch was in a television studio a few months ago when she shamed me into a stumbling apology. We were part of a panel discussing her plan to bar transgender people from entering female-only spaces. And the then equalities minister had, for once, gone out of her way to emphasise the need for a reasoned debate on this bitterly contested issue. So how, I asked, could she then justify a Conservative advertthat day claiming Keir Starmer didn’t know “what a woman is”?

Oct 30, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Andy Beckett |Diane Abbott |Tom Baldwin |Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite

By​ 2014, Keir Starmer was tired of running up against the ‘limits of legal justice’. He had recently stepped down as director of public prosecutions when his local MP, Frank Dobson, announced his retirement. Starmer entered the race to replace him as the member for Holborn and St Pancras. He was a political unknown in a crowded field, facing past and present leaders of Camden Council as well as a popular local doctor.