Labour's Bev Craig elected mayor of Greater Manchester, replacing Andy BurnhamThe contest was triggered when now-Prime Minister Andy Burnham stood down from the role following his election as an MP last month.www.bbc.co.uk
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Yasmin Ali
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This is tragic research. Money worries leave lifelong scars on the brain. theconversation.com/money-worrie...
Money worries can leave a lasting mark on the brain, 80-year study showsTracking thousands of people from birth to their 80s shows that long-term financial stress may quietly reshape the ageing brain.theconversation.com‘…the radicalisation of the British right through exposure to Maga influence (both cultural and financial) in recent years amounts to cognitive surrender. Political fandom has usurped judgment…’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Suddenly the British right feels a political chill. It’s getting cold in Andy Burnham’s shadow | Rafael BehrThe Tories and Reform had it easy when Keir Starmer was self-destructing – but a new PM with ideas exposes how vacant the opposition has become, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behrwww.theguardian.com‘The striking thing about the CJP’s leadership is its youth and poise…It’s hard to know how their politics will evolve. What they have in common is eloquence, message discipline, all-round unflappability and the potential to leave a legacy.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s why India’s cockroach protests were such a success – and why the Mamdani effect means more to come | Mukul KesavanThe young leaders are eloquent and organised – and now they know what victory looks like. That could be a huge headache for Narendra Modi, says Dehli-based essayist and author Mukul Kesavanwww.theguardian.com‘A rebalancing of British power is shaping up to be the big-ticket item of the Burnham government. If it works, it will unleash myriad policy moves as yet unimagined across the country, bringing the growth that is the prerequisite for all else.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Scoff at cheaper bus fares and No 10 North if you like, but Andy Burnham knows what he’s doing | Jonathan FreedlandRetail politics while taking power out of London: if this works, Burnham’s premiership could be seriously transformational, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedlandwww.theguardian.com
Most of us get more from the state than we pay in taxes. Yet we think we don’t. open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...?
Burnham’s biggest problem: ungrateful votersFew of us believe we benefit from our contract with the stateopen.substack.comWhat’s the priority? Preventing crime and rehabilitating offenders, or punishing offenders at greater expense? theconversation.com/people-in-th...
People in the UK favour harsher punishment than Norwegians – belief in free will may help explain whyWhat people believe about choice and responsibility shapes what they think prison is for.theconversation.com‘The new leader ….has to restore flagging faith in democratic politics as the method. He needs to generate patience in an intemperate age.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Andy Burnham is playing the long game in an age of short attention spans | Rafael BehrIt is hard to make the case for a 10-year plan in our political culture of constant campaigning frenzy – but the new PM will try, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behrwww.theguardian.com@mrjamesob.bsky.social is talking about buses, so here’s a bus! scrittipolitti766694713.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/t...
The Outer CircleStill reckoned to be Europe’s longest urban bus route, the No.11 in Birmingham, known as the Outer Circle (there is also an Inner Circle, obviously), began in 1923. I decided to ride the rout…scrittipolitti766694713.wordpress.com‘There is a sense here, perhaps, of Burnham’s placatory, agreeable instincts getting the better of him, and the kind of grimly comic fate once summed up by Harold Wilson: “I am running a Bolshevik revolution with a tsarist shadow cabinet.”.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Andy Burnham I’ve met over the past 20 years gives me hope for British politics | John HarrisYou hear the word ‘empathy’ a lot when people talk about our next prime minister. I can see why, says Guardian columnist John Harriswww.theguardian.com‘On the one hand, CPAC GB was a series of confused and furious rants delivered to a half-full hall of a few hundred often bored people. On another, it could be a harbinger of things to come. Just a few years ago, CPAC in the US was easily dismissed, too.’
James BallIn truly incredible timing for CPAC GB and for Liz Truss herself, the Tate brothers have just been arrested.
‘The president claimed this week to be “winning big”. No one believes him. Even as it counts the vast human and economic cost of his Persian folly, a watching world scoffs at US impotence.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon TisdallAs the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdallwww.theguardian.com
