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Burnham is doomed if he listens to Labour MPs on immigration
As Andy Burnham prepares to take over as Prime Minister, we still have no idea who will be the next…
Burnham’s good vibes just won’t cut it
Andy Burnham will become Prime Minister today – the seventh leader of the country in the last decade. It is…
The sheer awfulness of CPAC GB
Readers, I have been to a few political conferences in my time. But none of them were as empty, miserable,…
Who cares if Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is nothing like the book?
You could think of it as a Venn diagram. One circle would contain all the people who have read Homer’s…
Why does BBC iPlayer have a problem with Christianity?
It’s the end of term at last. Teachers like me have every right to stick a video on, for their…
Lord Hermer is an unserious man
Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, has often been criticised during his two years in the role. For his decision to…
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…
My Paris neighbourhood has become a no-go zone
When I moved into Paris’s seventh arrondissement, I was not expecting to find myself living in one of the city’s…
How Theresa May remade modern politics
Andy Burnham, the incoming prime minister, thinks English devolution will be the great stroke against Reform UK. On one level…
When did Brits become so rude to shop staff?
I was lost in Senegal and saw a police officer. My experience of Senegalese people up until then had been…
Trump is smoke-signaling with his forest fire tariff
The latest incursion into American airspace is forest fire smoke from Canada. An invasion, according to President Trump. And the…
Neil O’Brien: ‘This is a radically different party’
No one quite yet knows what Andy Burnham will be like as Prime Minister. But a preview of the coming…
Burnham must not neglect Britain’s trashed environment
Contrary to what you might think, Keir Starmer’s No. 10 and No. 11 had an almost Stalinist disdain for the…
The surprising truth about men and multitasking
One of the most popular and common beliefs of our times is that women are better than men at performing…
What’s the real meaning of The Odyssey?
The Roman poet Ovid summed it up in a couplet two millennia ago. Or what’s the Odyssey except a woman…
The coming battle between ‘Mr Brexit’ and the ‘King of the North’
It was Napoleon who said that ‘To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world…
Only cheats fear the SAVE Act
David Axelrod, Barack Hussein Obama’s chief strategist, was clearly worried about Donald Trump’s prime time speech about election integrity last…
Andy Burnham has a plan – but he won’t tell us what it is yet
Burnham’s schtick is that he is going to re-discover Labour’s true faith When I was covering Barack Obama’s battle with…
Burnham’s coronation speech was sub-Disney schmaltz
As coronations go, this was a particularly flat one. Instead of Zadok the Priest we were treated to New Order.…
Does the Donroe Doctrine support Argentina on the Falklands?
So FIFA is going to take action against the Argentinian players for unfurling their “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” banner after…
Andy Burnham’s plan to reverse Thatcherism is a little ridiculous
Why not blame Herbert Asquith or Lord Aberdeen? Andy Burnham’s line about reversing ‘40 years of neo-liberalism’ – i.e. since…
The SDP makes a bid for Clacton
William Clouston (@WilliamClouston), SDP, is standing to give the people of Clacton full and fair debate. ?@UKLabour won’t serve Clacton.@Conservatives…
Pakistan and Shabir Ahmed are laughing at Britain
Pakistan is laughing at us. Over the past three years, they’ve deported a staggering 2.4 million Afghans. It was one…
A wealth tax is bound to backfire on Andy Burnham
They might threaten to head for Monaco, the Bahamas, or even Dubai if the missiles stop flying overhead. But in…
The real Chinese election plot
China’s political interference is in many ways worse than President Trump asserts, but the true nature and scale of Beijing’s…
