Andy Burnham
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
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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
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived