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Cheap-shot announcement

Posted on August 6, 2026 by martin

Andy Burnham announces that sex offenders will be inelegible for early release. This is an obvious cheap shot announcement but there appears to be some story behind it. In the mayoral by-election Rupert Lowe’s Restore party clearly went all in … Continue reading →

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Asking to lose

Posted on July 27, 2026 by martin

The replacement of Kier Starmer as British prime minister with Andy Burnham is a non-event as the shackles of the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party) will ensure the same inability to take any properly tough decisions. However with Burnham having done … Continue reading →

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Labour’s austerity

Posted on July 16, 2026 by martin

Early last year I called out what at the time I thought would turn out to be the beginning of the end of the current Labour government, in large part because I thought that cutting departmental spending to bolster the … Continue reading →

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