I was told that he was underhand, dangerous ... so I hired him as soon as I could

TODAY, Michael Wolff joins the Evening Standard, where, every Wednesday, he will be writing about American politics, US media, and the forthcoming presidential election.

- Dylan Jones

Every week he will be deciphering the intricacies of the presidential race, focusing on the likes of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, Lachlan Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Ron DeSantis, Kristi Noem and, of course, Donald Trump. Michael is the foremost political journalist in America, a man whose reporting is so incendiary that Trump once even tried to have him banned (unsuccessfully, of course).

Wolff wrote for me for over a decade when I was editing GQ, 10 years in which he covered every major figure in US politics and media, as well as many established figures in Britain. In his time he investigated everyone from Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner to Jeffrey Epstein, Vanity Fair's Tina Brown and Alan Rusbridger (the dour and intractable former editor of The Guardian), and wrote reams about the New York Times, Boris Johnson, Rupert Murdoch and, of course, Trump.

There was no subject that was beyond him, no one he was scared of taking on. If I told him that one of his targets had called me to complain, or had accosted me in a restaurant, or got one of their lackeys to berate me, he would simply smile. "So it worked, then?" he would say.