Josh Glancy

From pints with Keir Starmer to champagne with Jilly Cooper to schnitzel with Vanessa Feltz, this is a trio of glorious Sunday Times Magazine interviews by Josh Glancy. Gorgeously written, deeply perceptive and revelatory. Many interviews these days involve a short tete a tete and a write up low on depth and real character. It makes a hugely refreshing change then not just to meet Jilly Cooper, but spend three rollicking hours with her drinking ang gossiping, as she questions Stanley Tucci's machismo, kvells over Phil Foden and reminisces about all her joyful office affairs. Not just to ask Keir Starmer the same old questions about politics, but to speak to his friends, his colleagues and old school mates, revealing so much more of the man behind the mask and getting to the heart of why he struggles to convey his authentic self in public. And Vanessa, a messy but thrilling life laid bare over a long dinner: breakups, weight struggles and professional melodrama. Joyous and insightful, this is magazine interviewing at its finest.