

Hitting The Ground Running
You can’t say he hasn’t got a wiggle on. Every day since he got the job our new Prime Minister’s pulled yet another rabbit out of the hat. Each aimed at easing cost of living pressures. People pleasing with knobs on. But, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, what isn’t quite so clear is who’s going to pick up the tab for it all. You see him here, you see him there, you see him everywhere. Before he’d even popped in on the palace for the royal get-go Andy Burn
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All Change, Maybe?
(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/nq1yLRxvlY4) With Andy Burnham poised to pick up the keys to Number Ten we’re all set for a new style of government. A new vibe. But as yet there’s no way of knowing whether that’ll translate into a new and better deal for the rest of us. It’s not like we’ve had any say in the matter. Half a century ago the Czech writer Milan Kundera was penning his seminal novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which explored the impact on the li
Jul 195 min read


Burnham The Midnight Oil
(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/DfQvq0ANIiA) Our incoming Prime Minister’s got a lot on his plate. Even more than he bargained for, thanks to the gristly leftovers scraped onto it from the outgoing guy’s not very tasty treat. Andy Burnham’s got to gulp it all down somehow, but it’ll take all his fabled communication skills to avoid leaving a nasty taste in everyone else’s mouth. ‘I’m afraid there’s no money.’ That scrawled note left by a Labour Treasury minister for
Jul 55 min read


And In With The New …
(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/PkChAbgN6xU) It’s now all but certain that in under three weeks’ time Andy Burnham will be Prime Minister. A mere month after the by-election that got him back into parliament. A staggering turnaround even by today’s excitable standards. Point of fact, it’s thought that he would have preferred to have had a bit more time to sort himself out. As it is, rather like Lenin stumbling back to Russia from his Swiss exile in 1917, he’s got to
Jun 285 min read