Livestream: Tim Shipman meets Nick Clegg
Watch the live recording of Tim Shipman meets Nick Clegg here. With a journalism career spanning nearly three decades, Tim…
How many people get arrested for terrorism?
Dying of heat Have this year’s heatwaves really killed 2,700 people? The claim has been made in a paper by…
Let Shabana Mahmood finish the job at the Home Office
We currently know more about what Count Binface would do in power than Andy Burnham. The joke candidate in the…
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…
Beware Andy Burnham’s ‘devolution revolution’
Andy Burnham is a lucky politician. And Nigel Farage has just given him another piece of surprising good fortune. The…
Portrait of the Week: Resignations, royal farces and World Cup wins
Home Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, announced that he would leave parliament (by applying to be Steward and Bailiff…
Which World Cups saw the most red cards?
To go or not to go? Would Andy Burnham be wise to call a general election? The record of PMs…
Letters: The British Empire was a force for good
Unjust William Sir: It is a bad idea for schools to be recommending their pupils listen to William Dalrymple’s podcast…
Burnham’s unwillingness to face the media should worry us all
There are so many hopes invested in Andy Burnham’s premiership that disappointment is inevitable. In some cases, it is also…
What kills more: heat or cold?
Absolute mayor Andy Burnham wants more devolution and elected mayors. Do voters want that? – Since 2001 there have been…
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…
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…
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…
Letters: Why the left loves Larkin
An irresponsible drama Sir: Britain is faced with a fabricated panic which has prioritised personality over policy. Keir Starmer has…
How does this World Cup compare with the first?
Football fiasco With 48 teams, this is the largest World Cup ever. How does it compare with the first? –…
Portrait of the week
Home The electors of Makerfield decided who might be prime minister. After John Healey resigned as defence secretary, Al Carns…
Trump has been outplayed by Iran
The Founding Fathers may have modelled America on Ancient Rome, but they would have found the ersatz gladiatorial spectacle Donald…
