
THIS was a transitional season for West Ham, with new manager Manuel Pellegrini at the helm promising a bright future for the club.
Pellegrini arrived last June, immediately setting about bringing in nine new signings to galvanise the club.
The future looked promising, with the likes of Felipe Anderson, Andriy Yarmolenko and Jack Wilshere coming in.

Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit

PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery

From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN

PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by a deep dive into contemporary social crises, that examines how they are manipulated by elites