Andy Burnham delays voting reform to protect his own mandate
By keeping first-past-the-post for one more election, Andy Burnham uses a flawed voting system to preserve his own power while promising future reform.
By Adele Rutherford ·
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Reform UK is not a revolution, it is a brokerage for the wealthy
When you grow up in Flint, you learn early that the people in charge always have a different set of rules for themselves than they do for the people they claim to represent.
By Maya Ellison ·
Reform UK is no rescue party, just a loophole for foreign cash
There is a particular kind of noise that accompanies a political movement when it begins to eat its own tail.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Macron and Burnham use the Bayeux Tapestry to mask a border pact
When the powerful want to signal a "new era," they don't look to the people; they look to the archives.
By Maya Ellison ·
Nigel Farage’s Clacton win proves performance art beats governance
You watch these things—these self-inflicted spectacles in Clacton—and you realize that politics has become less about governance and more about performance art. It is exhausting, really.
By Alma Cordero ·
Polls closing soon in Clacton by-election triggered by Nigel Farage
The whole circus—the 34 candidates, the record number of hopefuls that pollcheck.co.uk noted, the sheer spectacle of it all—is nothing but noise.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
vHow Nigel Farage Ended Up Running Against a Man Dressed as a Trash Can
It takes a certain kind of desperate genius—the sort that mistakes noise for momentum—to stage an election designed purely as a sideshow.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Harborne donation shows standards watchdog fails to regulate cash
When you spend your life pointing fingers at the system—at the "establishment," as Nigel Farage so eloquently puts it—you build a brand.
By Josie Calloway ·
Labour's Bev Craig elected Greater Manchester Mayor
The Greater Manchester mayoral by-election was supposed to be a moment of regional reckoning—a chance for the city region to assert its democratic will after years of navigating…
By Aoife Gallagher ·