Keir Starmer
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…
‘I hope Keir Starmer comes for the pints, not the food’: The Pineapple reviewed
It’s a Saturday afternoon and I’ve just walked into The Pineapple in north London, thus becoming the 4,825th journalist to…
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…
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…
Letters: Burnham is a master brand-builder
Telling stories Sir: As a filmmaker by training and a marketer by profession, I couldn’t agree more with your leading…
How does this week’s heatwave compare with 1976?
Prime numbers It looks as if Britain will just miss out on having seven prime ministers in the space of…
Bring back lunchtime drinking
The usual blindfolds, handcuffs and gags were slapped on live news and discussion programmes last Thursday, including me and my…
Portrait of the week: Burnham wins, Starmer resigns and a heatwave hits
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, stood outside 10 Downing Street and said that he would resign as leader…
Burnham’s worryingly vague vision for Britain
Once again the question occurs: ‘Why do they want it?’ Keir Starmer held a very important role in the legal…
How Burnham can avoid Starmer’s fate
Welcome to the cabaret, Andy Burnham. Last year, the editor of this magazine wrote about ‘Weimar Britain’: the fear that…
Portrait of the week
Home The electors of Makerfield decided who might be prime minister. After John Healey resigned as defence secretary, Al Carns…
Starmer’s Russian oil tanker raid was a political stunt
This morning, in a blaze of publicity, Royal Navy commandos boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the English channel in…
Revealed: Andy Burnham’s reassuringly bland Cambridge years
There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in…
Portrait of the week: Belfast burns, Sullivan resigns and the Iran ceasefire cracks
Home A horrible video circulated on social media of a man on the ground in a Belfast street being stabbed…
Britain should listen to America’s mass migration warning
Back in November, the US State Department warned that ‘mass migration poses an existential threat to western civilisation and undermines…
Kemi gives me hope
I had a notion the other day that there was possibly more I could offer to this fleeting world. A…
Is the West deserting Ukraine at precisely the wrong moment?
Moscow is coming under direct drone attack, the Russian economy is creaking, patriotic bloggers are ever more apocalyptic in their…
No one likes Arsenal, we don’t care
Arsenal’s triumph in finally winning the Premier League again after 22 long, often eyeball-wrenchingly tortuous years has gone down like…
Labour must be honest with voters about the coming crisis
So far, Labour has staged a contested leadership election in government only once – 50 years ago, in 1976. The…
The unbearable smugness of Arsenal fans
Arsenal are Premier League champions after a 22-year wait: their first title since the famous Invincibles season under Arsène Wenger…
Things can always get worse
I have spent the past week marvelling at the behaviour of our commentating class. They seem to have whipped themselves…
Cling on, Sir Keir
People laugh at Sir Keir Starmer for failing to acknowledge that he has almost no hope of survival. This is…
First they came for Mandelson…
At the time of writing, I haven’t seen the King’s Speech, but it’s a safe bet it will include a…
WATCH: Keir Starmer declares himself a ‘gooner’
They say being honest in the face of adversity can help save your neck. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer this…
Britain is sick of the Westminster psychodrama
The British Army has long lived by a simple maxim: “Prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance.” It remains…
