I love a drink in the stands, but Burnham’s beer proposal feels out of step with modern football | Marva Kreel
Focusing on the right to drink at your seat is an odd place to start when discrimination in the game runs much deeperAndy Burnham is right that football fans have historically been treated differently from other sports fans. But if we’re going to talk…
What are the Lib Dems for? They must champion localism to stay relevant in an age of single-issue politics | Simon Jenkins
Ed Davey’s party are the obvious candidates to push for the deeper local democracy the public is crying out forSeptember is the cruellest month for political commentators because it is when something has to be said about the Liberal Democrats. They are a…
Alcohol in the stands would spoil football | Brief letters
Andy Burnham’s own goal | Investigating failure | Hedgehog-flavoured crisps | Crisp festival | Sitting proneBefore legislating to permit alcoholic drinks to be consumed in the stands at football (Report, 23 September), Andy Burnham should attend a rugby…
From idealists to struggling sceptics: how Labour’s majority depends on five progressive voter types – in charts
Analysis reveals groups with sharply contrasting priorities – and who has drifted the most from Labour towards Greens and Reform• Tactical voting at next election could push Reform into fourth place, poll findsA new MRP poll suggests Labour would remain…
Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain
The new prime minister has declared he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But is he really prepared to be that radical?In May 2025, when Keir Starmer was still prime minister, Labour politicians, campaigners and journalists gathered at the Ministry…
Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years
Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chancesBritain should work towards rejoining the EU in the next decade, Tony Blair has said, adding to growing pressure on Andy Burnham to…
The Guardian view on Russian disinformation: a foreign threat that relies on UK complicity | Editorial
Andy Burnham’s accusation against the Kremlin tells half the story. Domestic extremists amplified by US big tech are part of the same problemIn November 2020, Barack Obama warned of an “epistemological crisis” facing western democracies. Polarisation and…
Burnham survived his first Trump meeting. His nice hair may have had something to do with it | Emma Brockes
The PM’s shiny newness could explain the easy ride he got this time. But who would dare predict the ever-shifting weather in the president’s head?Watching footage of Andy Burnham at the UN general assembly on Tuesday was like watching your child from…