A multi-party progressive alliance may be the dream of many left-liberals but it would create the conditions for a right-wing revival

Even if Farage resigned tomorrow, the anti-liberal forces he has unlocked will continue to shape British politics, in profound and unexpected ways, at a time of extraordinary volatility

Burnham has pulled off something remarkable: he has temporarily united a previously demoralised and divided party behind him. Yet he is a putative national leader whose character, ideas and policy proposals have not been tested in a general election campaign or leadership contest and, outside Westminster and Greater Manchester, remains largely unknown in the country

How did a prime minister who won a landslide become the most unpopular in modern times? 

Vote Burnham, Get Starmer Out: all roads lead to Wigan 

Supporting a football team, if you are a true fan, is a deep, emotional commitment and unbreakable, enduring for better or worse through the decades, an invisible chain connecting who you are today with the child you used to be

Dominated by technology, ruled by the smartphone, shadowed by war and saturated by a constant stream of pornographic and violent images: our world feels ever more Ballardian

There are few more self-righteous politicians than Starmer, the career lawyer and former director of public prosecutions. He sees himself as an honest man, a man of rules. If he makes mistakes, they are honest mistakes. So when the leader of the opposition calls him a liar she strikes at the very core of who he is and believes himself to be