Andy Burnham
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence