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John Healey’s ‘new age of industrialisation’ is a fantasy
The first half of John Healey’s first Labour conference speech as Chancellor reminded me of old men in a bowls…
An Orange march and the hollow promise of Irish unification
Once again events on an otherwise nondescript stretch of road in Portadown are likely to have an outsized impact on…
Scrapping the pensions triple lock won’t pay for Burnham’s care service
Andy Burnham told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg yesterday that he’s ready to ‘rip the plaster off’ and introduce a new…
Watch: Gaza activists accost Ed Miliband at Pizza Express
Red Ed Miliband has wasted no time at Labour conference, gallivanting around and boasting about his pro-Palestine credentials. The Foreign…
Manchester City’s woes spell trouble for Britain
When news broke that Manchester City had been found guilty of all but one of the 115 charges relating to…
Why are we giving asylum to a Hamas bodyguard?
Such is the level of rot in our public institutions, and so accustomed have we become to daily stories of…
The DSA sincerely dislikes America
Like most evenings recently, I was scrolling X to fill some idle time. Within seconds, I came across a rather…
Labour’s KFC-sponsored class war begins
The Labour Party loves a bogeyman: Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Benjamin Netanyahu. But at conference this year, the…
What kind of man abandons a child in the Channel?
For as long as humanity has existed, there have always been those who would view our species as either essentially…
The Green party is too naive for its own good
As members of the Green Party gather in Brighton for their annual conference later this week, they’re likely to be…
The gender row that could derail Labour conference
Andy Burnham must be fairly pleased. Having ticked off a non-disastrous trip to see Donald Trump, the Prime Minister began Labour party conference…
The real reason kids are giving up reading
Another day, another dispiriting survey about the crisis in childhood reading. Parents who earn more than £100,000 a year are…
Irish football is suffering from a Palestinian purity test
How did Ireland get here? As Ireland’s footballers huddle in a Hungarian hotel deciding whether to play Israel tonight, it…
Sunday shows round-up: Burnham pushes for a national care service
Andy Burnham: ‘I am talking about a system that works on NHS principles’ Speaking to the BBC from Labour’s conference…
Burnham delays social care reform this parliament
The Labour Party conference gets underway in Liverpool today, with Andy Burnham giving his big sit-down interview to Laura Kuenssberg…
Tactical voting is Burnham’s secret weapon
For Andy Burnham the biggest challenge is to avoid going down like Gordon Brown, who passed up the chance of…
Ukrainians are struggling to keep going
Each time I fly back to Odesa, my hometown, to see my family, I notice how things have changed since…
How ‘Little Boy’ Japan grew up
In 2005, the Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami wrote that the nickname for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima –…
Are Welsh nationalists the ‘Postman Pats’ of international terrorism?
The first ministers of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have a clear message for Westminster: Your ‘time is coming to…
Ranulph Fiennes and the perils of depriving liberty
Sir Ranulph Fiennes reached the summit of Everest at the age of 65. After eight years in the military, including…
The death of Brian Brindley
When Brian Brindley, who held his 70th birthday party in 2001 in the Athenaeum Club, returned from the lavatory, he…
Was Coltrane overrated?
John Coltrane was born 100 years ago this week, and jazz lovers are in a sentimental mood. Coltrane, who died…
Is Estonia really preparing for war with Russia?
“Prepare for war,” was the message from Estonian EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas to the European Defence Agency last…
Man City may have damaged the Premier League beyond repair
Hands up anyone who knows what happens now that Manchester City have reportedly been found guilty of nearly all of…
What should we have expected from the US-China summit?
The summit ended as it started – with Donald Trump raining lavish praise on his guest. The meeting was one…
