Len McCluskey
The humiliation that turned Andy Burnham from Blairite to union man
Andy Burnham is the Labour establishment’s choice as the next party leader. So why does he feel like an outsider?
Why is Len McCluskey paying Carter-Ruck to threaten me?
Unite’s leader splashes out on legal threats because he knows his cause is in trouble
Portrait of the week
Home The annual rate of inflation turned negative in April, for the first time since 1960, with deflation of 0.1…
Lessons for Red Len
With Len McCluskey, general secretary of the union Unite, keen to ensure ‘his’ members choose the next Labour leader, and…
On Jim O’Neill, the new ‘Northern Powerhouse’ supremo
A doff of my flat cap to Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs economist who has been made a peer,…
A Finnish man was fined £83,000 for speeding because his annual income is £10.1 million
I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…
With one cunningly placed number, Boris may have killed HS2
‘Does anyone seriously doubt that this amazing scheme is actually going to go ahead?’ boomed Boris Johnson last week. ‘No…
