The Week
How many people drown in Britain?
Common ground The Commonwealth Games began as the British Empire Games in 1930, yet they did not originate in Britain.…
How to approach women successfully
Rights and wrongs Sir: As one of those centre-left weirdos who reads your magazine to see what the other side…
Can Burnham end rough sleeping?
Lost counties Rutland is to be abolished for the second time, having first been taken off the map in 1974…
Burnham is already drifting towards defeat
Nothing so became Keir Starmer’s premiership as his leaving of it. Farewell remarks outside Downing Street, unpunctuated by the odious…
In defence of career politicians
A couple of years ago we rented a villa in Ithaca. ‘Who wants to go see Odysseus’s palace?’ I said…
The modern hysteria about hysteria
The McKinsey Institute says that health outcomes for women are less successful than those for men, and it has been…
Letters: Bring back hat wearing
That’s the spirit Sir: What a wonderful young man Michael Simmons is (‘Sick of it’, 18 July). His stubborn refusal…
How many people get arrested for terrorism?
Dying of heat Have this year’s heatwaves really killed 2,700 people? The claim has been made in a paper by…
My run-in with Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant, self-confessed grump and Fourth Estate muzzler, was at a drinks party I went to the other day in…
Let Shabana Mahmood finish the job at the Home Office
We currently know more about what Count Binface would do in power than Andy Burnham. The joke candidate in the…
Does Nigel Farage think he’s above scrutiny?
If Nigel Farage is so confident that the £5 million donation he received from a friend is entirely kosher, why…
Letters: bring on devolution
The right kind of devolution Sir: Your leading article ‘The Burnham Question’ (11 July) suggests that the putative prime minister’s…
Beware Andy Burnham’s ‘devolution revolution’
Andy Burnham is a lucky politician. And Nigel Farage has just given him another piece of surprising good fortune. The…
Portrait of the Week: Resignations, royal farces and World Cup wins
Home Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, announced that he would leave parliament (by applying to be Steward and Bailiff…
London’s slump won’t last
I left the Sunday Times a year ago to create a CEO reputation advisory firm. Sir Philip Green, the former…
Lessons in oratory for Andy Burnham
A Mr Burnham, A.M. (Andrew Murray) fancies being PM and Labour MPs have decided to humour him. Needing to assert…
Which World Cups saw the most red cards?
To go or not to go? Would Andy Burnham be wise to call a general election? The record of PMs…
Letters: The British Empire was a force for good
Unjust William Sir: It is a bad idea for schools to be recommending their pupils listen to William Dalrymple’s podcast…
Burnham’s unwillingness to face the media should worry us all
There are so many hopes invested in Andy Burnham’s premiership that disappointment is inevitable. In some cases, it is also…
The secret to writing a good musical
Jesus Christ Superstar is returning to the West End at the Palladium, the theatre owned by its composer. It probably…
How to paint like the ancient Greeks
Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient…
What kills more: heat or cold?
Absolute mayor Andy Burnham wants more devolution and elected mayors. Do voters want that? – Since 2001 there have been…
