Andy Burnham
Does Yogi Bear have a connection to yoga?
‘Well, we all have areas of ignorance,’ said my husband with a little too much relish, I thought. He was…
My top tips for Andy Burnham
I am cautiously optimistic about our new leader. For one thing, the fact that Mr Burnham went to Cambridge not…
Burnham is boldly going nowhere
‘Space: the final frontier.’ Six decades since Captain James T. Kirk first uttered those words, American enthusiasm for star-trekking is…
No election? Don’t bet on it
When Dwight D. Eisenhower had to decide whether to launch the D-Day armada he kept a close eye on the…
I wish more people had imposter syndrome
I have spent part of the past week thinking about imposter syndrome, and how we might be able to give…
Fantasticks, calash, noctivagation – the wonderful words of Anthony Wood
‘Things are just completely coming full circle here. For me to be here with you all in the heart of…
How to write your own Burnham thinkpiece
As seen in the New World When that More In Common poll dropped this week showing Andy Burnham comfortably ahead…
Tax the poor
A sanctimonious liberal like any other respectable 16-year-old, I made a seminal lurch to the right the first time I…
Andy Burnham cannot solve Labour’s Gaza problem
Prime Ministers usually wait until they have been in office a little while before issuing apologies. Andy Burnham made one…
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…
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…
Andy Burnham’s centrist act isn’t fooling anyone
When Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood arrived in Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the image of political rivals arm in…
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…
Burnham’s solutions must not lie in the 1970s
Andy Burnham is right. The cost of living is foremost in people’s minds just now. Naturally his electricity bill VAT…
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…
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…
Andy Burnham can’t afford to please everyone
Andy Burnham thinks his critics need a new joke about him. The old one about a Blairite, a Brownite and…
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…
Count Binface has shown Burnham how to make a manifesto
Count Binface’s manifesto, made for Makerfield and tweaked for Clacton, is a rare point of light in today’s Stygian political…
France’s World Cup failure will devastate Emmanuel Macron
Few in France will have been as devastated by their team’s defeat in last night’s World Cup semi-final as Emmanuel…
Labour politicians make the pilgrimage to St Andy
Warm wine, small talk and curling canapés have long defined the Westminster summer scene. But regime change has added a…
Prince Harry and Nigel Farage have more in common than they might like to admit
At about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, two cases with a common characteristic coincided. One was Nigel Farage’s long statement about…
