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Burnham is trying to do a Brown
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become Britain’s 59th Prime Minister. The team around him has been strikingly circumspect when it comes…
My Paris neighbourhood has become a no-go zone
When I moved into Paris’s seventh arrondissement, I was not expecting to find myself living in one of the city’s…
How Theresa May remade modern politics
Andy Burnham, the incoming prime minister, thinks English devolution will be the great stroke against Reform UK. On one level…
When did Brits become so rude to shop staff?
I was lost in Senegal and saw a police officer. My experience of Senegalese people up until then had been…
Trump is smoke-signaling with his forest fire tariff
The latest incursion into American airspace is forest fire smoke from Canada. An invasion, according to President Trump. And the…
Neil O’Brien: ‘This is a radically different party’
No one quite yet knows what Andy Burnham will be like as Prime Minister. But a preview of the coming…
Burnham must not neglect Britain’s trashed environment
Contrary to what you might think, Keir Starmer’s No. 10 and No. 11 had an almost Stalinist disdain for the…
The surprising truth about men and multitasking
One of the most popular and common beliefs of our times is that women are better than men at performing…
What’s the real meaning of The Odyssey?
The Roman poet Ovid summed it up in a couplet two millennia ago. Or what’s the Odyssey except a woman…
The coming battle between ‘Mr Brexit’ and the ‘King of the North’
It was Napoleon who said that ‘To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world…
Only cheats fear the SAVE Act
David Axelrod, Barack Hussein Obama’s chief strategist, was clearly worried about Donald Trump’s prime time speech about election integrity last…
Andy Burnham has a plan – but he won’t tell us what it is yet
Burnham’s schtick is that he is going to re-discover Labour’s true faith When I was covering Barack Obama’s battle with…
Burnham’s coronation speech was sub-Disney schmaltz
As coronations go, this was a particularly flat one. Instead of Zadok the Priest we were treated to New Order.…
Does the Donroe Doctrine support Argentina on the Falklands?
So FIFA is going to take action against the Argentinian players for unfurling their “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” banner after…
Andy Burnham’s plan to reverse Thatcherism is a little ridiculous
Why not blame Herbert Asquith or Lord Aberdeen? Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since…
The SDP makes a bid for Clacton
William Clouston (@WilliamClouston), SDP, is standing to give the people of Clacton full and fair debate. ?@UKLabour won’t serve Clacton.@Conservatives…
Pakistan and Shabir Ahmed are laughing at Britain
Pakistan is laughing at us. Over the past three years, they’ve deported a staggering 2.4 million Afghans. It was one…
A wealth tax is bound to backfire on Andy Burnham
They might threaten to head for Monaco, the Bahamas, or even Dubai if the missiles stop flying overhead. But in…
The real Chinese election plot
China’s political interference is in many ways worse than President Trump asserts, but the true nature and scale of Beijing’s…
A life and death power struggle in Kyiv
Volodymyr Zelensky must have felt a peculiar sense of déjà vu as thousands of Ukrainians chanted ‘Shame!’ beneath the windows…
The Middle East is drifting into chaos
The war in Iran rumbles on, in parallel to talks that are aimed at stopping it. Both sides would rather…
Trump is doing a fine job of winding up the Democrats
Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US military will test soldiers over thirty years old for low testosterone. But…
The trouble with Israel’s Argentina taunts
Israel armed Argentina during the Falklands. That is a fact. Between the 2 April and 14 June 1982, Israel sold…
Trump looks like a spent force
Pete Hegseth has announced that the US military will test soldiers over 30-years old for low testosterone. But judging by…
Lib Dems plot their own think tank
For almost a century, first the Liberals and now the Liberal Democrats have had to consign themselves to being the…
