Why we should fear a Burnham bust
Andy Burnham’s summer holiday is officially over. Even as he tried to project sunny optimism yesterday in his first address to the House of Commons as PM, the economic storm…
Andy Burnham’s summer holiday is officially over. Even as he tried to project sunny optimism yesterday in his first address to the House of Commons as PM, the economic storm…
‘You never get a second chance to make a first impression.’ ‘Better to be overdressed than under.’ ‘Clothes maketh the man.’ These phrases often cross my mind when putting an…
‘By tackling the early roots of misogyny… the government hopes to prevent young men from becoming violent abusers’, surmises the BBC. Such rhetoric is quite astounding. Is it really a…
Are you familiar with Natural England? Don’t worry if you’re not. You were never asked to be. Nobody has ever stood on your doorstep asking you to vote for it.…
Someone threatened to put a bullet in my head last weekend. My offence? Questioning whether a local Pride event was suitable for children. At Medway Pride in north Kent, I…
On 12 August, UK prime minister Andy Burnham convened an immediate sitting of the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (commonly referred to as COBRA). This is the committee that tends to…
Racism and sexism have become ‘normalised’ in Britain, asserted equalities minister Bridget Phillipson last week. Speaking on the Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast, to substantiate these claims, she cited the ‘cesspit’…
The British state’s decision to disperse asylum seekers to the poorest parts of the country has long been causing serious problems. Mainly accommodated in so-called migrant hotels and increasingly houses…
In January, the British government published its policing white paper, From Local to National: A New Model for Policing. This promises the biggest shake-up of policing in England and Wales…
Disposable barbecues, of all things, have found themselves in the firing line after Andy Burnham’s government temporarily banned their sale over wildfire fears. Fair enough, you might think. It’s probably…