Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham’s concerning links to Abu Dhabi
Last month at the UN general assembly, Andy Burnham spoke movingly about Manchester’s statue of Abraham Lincoln, which stands outside…
Kemi Badenoch knows the right way forward
Last year’s Conservative party conference was a difficult one. Reform UK was leading the polls; the local election results had…
A radical solution to the prisons crisis
This Halloween, punters at a silent disco in Shepton Mallet’s former prison will be dancing on the graves of executed…
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…
Where are my reparations?
The natural coalition of rural people which was forged 25 years ago, before the hunting ban, is forming once more.…
Why can’t the Financial Times correctly name peers?
The present Lord Howard de Walden’s first name is not Howard. It’s Peter, for the 11th Baron is the film-maker…
Which prime ministers have sporting achievements?
Premier sports Andy Burnham took part in the Great North Run, a half marathon, finishing in 1 hour 57 minutes.…
Meet the most powerful woman in Britain
Some years ago Antonia Romeo, now the Cabinet Secretary, was stuck in a boring meeting about civil service reform. She…
Britain’s sanctions against Israel will backfire
The historian Niall Ferguson, sometimes of this parish, said: “The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of…
Why Britain’s West Bank sanctions are savvy politics
British PM Andy Burnham’s move to impose sanctions on West Bank settlements is politically savvy – but not because it…
Mark Carney is the true King of the North
Mark Carney never much liked Brexit. As the Bank of England’s governor during the 2016 referendum, Carney was limited in…
Augustus’s plans for poverty
A Mr A.M. Burnham has introduced a clear blueprint and legislative goals intended to lift hundreds of thousands of children…
Time’s up for Burnham’s happy thoughts
Kemi Badenoch, headlines my newspaper, ‘prepares Tories for early general election’ with her big reshuffle this week. I do not…
Now we need to see your economic plans, Prime Minister
Keir Starmer once promised to ‘tread more lightly’ on voters’ lives. Yet he presided over a government that raised taxes…
Is Andy Burnham ready for the world stage?
If Andy Burnham has a golden rule, it seems to be this: do the opposite of Keir Starmer. The new…
Portrait of the week: Burnham heads to Kyiv, energy bills rise and Meghan and Harry return
Home Andy Burnham made his first foreign trip as Prime Minister, to Kyiv. ‘Despite Russia’s outrageous threats to my country,’…
Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis
I don’t know how familiar readers are with the term ‘accelerationism’. It is generally used to describe a tendency on…
Portrait of the week: barbecues are banned, Burnham is fooled and Farage wins Clacton
Home The temperature reached 38.1ºC at Kew Gardens, Surrey. In the West Midlands a wildfire at Stourbridge burnt down 19…
The budding bromance between Trump and Burnham
As seen in the New Statesman I t’s a quarter to midnight on a hot July evening when the text…
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…
