All articles by: Martin Rowson

As I Please: Martin Rowson

Published: September 26, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

In 1976, after James Callaghan won the Labour Leadership contest to succeed Harold Wilson, Labour’s former deputy leader Roy Jenkins resigned as an MP to become President of the European …

As I Please – Martin Rowson

Published: August 8, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

I t’s one of the richer ironies, among all the ironies snapping round our knees right now, that the greatest breakthrough in communication since print­ing turned out so quickly to …

As I Please – Martin Rowson

Published: July 13, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

Like half the rest of the country, I can’t yet put a name to this feeling I wake up with every morning, the mixture of anxiety and despair I last …

As I Please – Martin Rowson

Published: May 15, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

It’s possible for the recent election results to be ­SIMULTANEOUSLY both a triumph AND a disaster for Jeremy Corbyn, and for holders of either view to believe ­holders of the …

As I Please – Martin Rowson

Published: April 17, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

There’s a question David Cameron has repeatedly failed to answer for at least the past six years, and that’s ­because no one’s asked him it.

As I Please – Martin Rowson

Published: March 19, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

I remember feeling like this when Neil Hamilton sued Mohamed Al-Fayed for libel in 2001, or when George ­Galloway debated late-period neo-con Christopher Hitchens in New York in 2005: how …

As I Please – Martin Rowson

Published: February 21, 2016
Written by Martin Rowson

As I’m writing this on my 57th birthday, I’ve thrown away my initial plans for this column – the kind of sober and sombre disquisition and interrogation of matters of …