Andy Burnham
Should all England be a Greater Manchester?
Neither Starmer nor Johnson know if local lockdowns are any more effective than national lockdowns. But both have dug-in to their positions.
You’ll take it and like it
Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris
Putting our arms around the National Elf Service
First have Christmas, then pay for it
Bidding for bribes
Inviting local areas to bid for central government money is a terrible idea
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
Former spin doctor divulges on India’s ruling dynasty
Sanjay Jha’s new book reveals the degeneration of the oldest party in the world’s largest democracy
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Are we trapped in our own version of The Truman Show?
The longer the pandemic and the platitudes go on, the more something doesn’t feel quite right
The world leaders who battled coronavirus and won
How is it that our most eccentric world leaders have been the ones disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
The strategy behind the Covid Recovery Group
MPs fighting the lockdown are sharpening their swords for an almighty battle with No.10