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A free-to-use National Care Service will never work
As a former adviser on social care reform to a Conservative prime minister, allow me to explain why Andy Burnham’s…
Andy Burnham is not a literary PM
At what point, during Team Burnham’s preparations for government, did the overture to ‘Bus Aunty’ go out? Was she contacted…
The NHS is fundamentally dishonest
This weekend, the excellent health editor of the Sunday Times, Shaun Lintern, revealed how NHS England has been suppressing damaging reports…
Does Burnham think he can get away with calling out Trump?
Andy Burnham has some tough words for Donald Trump, warning that he will always put Britain’s interests first, even if…
Macron could’ve done more to stop the Bordeaux fires
Firefighters in France have spent the weekend trying to save Bordeaux from an immense conflagration. On Monday morning, the city’s…
Germany is still in denial about the Berlin terror attack
The annual Christopher Street Day, as Pride parades are known in Germany, has been a fixture of Berlin’s cultural calendar…
Should we let women out of jail?
Andy Burnham has a problem. Desperate to ensure that his government isn’t defined by releasing killers and sex offenders early,…
There is nothing surprising about the Berlin pride attack
Sky News proudly posted a clip of their reporter in Berlin struggling to explain the latest car ramming attack, this…
Burnham will struggle to stop the early prisoner releases
In 2019, a police officer, Andrew Harper, was killed while on duty. After responding to a burglary he chased after a…
Is Andy Burnham really ready to hand power to Reform councils?
Keen to keep up the momentum on his big (or not so big) ideas, Andy Burnham will apparently announce on…
Why this wasn’t Italy’s George Floyd moment
For a brief moment I thought that the death this week in Bologna of a Moroccan, face-down on the tarmac,…
Why is Ireland lecturing Germany about the Ulm 5 trial?
Ten months into his detention, Irishman Daniel Tatlow-Devally and his fellow pro Palestine activists have spent 22 hours a day…
I invented Nixonmaxxing
The kids call it ‘Nixonmaxxing,’ and I invented it 30 years ago. ‘I think that his historical record is enjoying…
Is Elon Musk wrong about Britain and civil war?
Do you think that Britain is heading towards civil war? If you spend too much time in certain nooks on…
Andy Burnham is a joke
Can I shock you? I like Andy Burnham. Not in a gay way. More that, when he comes on the…
We sacrifice the humanities at our peril
Another month, another of our great universities making brutal cuts. At Exeter (motto: lucem sequimur, ‘we follow the light’) over 500…
Why I’ve given up on supermarkets
Three years ago, I embarked on a personal project that has brought about a quiet revolution in my cooking and…
‘Goy’ and ‘goyim’ are not pejorative terms
The words goy and goyim are thrown around by Jews and non-Jews to mean very different things and to convey…
The media will miss Trump when he’s gone
Hats off to President Trump! At the conclusion of his speech to the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump donned…
Why the bus £2 price cap might just pay off for Burnham
Andy Burnham has announced a reduction in the cap on English bus fares, down from Starmer’s £3. Remarkably, he might…
I’m so glad that Big Ange is back
Big Ange is back. From a sketchwriter’s point of view I have to say that this is marvellous news. Rayner…
How Britain’s imperial history affects diplomacy today
If, as the joke goes, war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, then sport is arguably His way of…
The office politics behind Tokyo’s hairy leg panic
As Tokyoites swelter in 95-degree heat and 80 per cent humidity – and companies are forced to cut back on the…
Therapy speak is turning us into sissies
As one who’s always been keen on putting their hand up and admitting to their faults (a perverse form of…
Voters are buying what Burnham is selling
We are approaching the end of Andy Burnham’s first week in power. There are as many questions as answers about…
