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“You can be nice and ordinary but also have an inner core of absolute steel” - my profile of @andyburnham the contradictory PM as Labour conference begins @ObserverUK
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Louise Haigh: ‘I’ve been more frightened as a politician than I was as a police officer’
The first secretary, a former Met special constable, shares her vision of a fairer socialist Britain as she walks around a park in her home city of Sheffield
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How social media helped make sunbeds dangerous again
Melanoma is now one of the most common cancers in people aged 15 to 34, and attributed to a growing trend in sunbed use fuelled by TikTok and Instagram, reports @MarineSaint02
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“I’m a lot stricter than him, I finish mostly on time” - this week’s @ObserverUK Walk is with Andy Burnham’s right hand woman Louise Haigh
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Labour wants to believe in Andy Burnham. The hard choices can wait
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Our undercover reporter, Chris Atkins, posed as a far-right journalist at the Reform Conference and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal @scatatkins
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Starmer is resigning because he became unreasonably hated - partly because of too many self-inflicted mistakes and partly because social media+Farage +the wider right have created a loathing and hatred culture. Burnham is right to seek time to prepare. The same forces await him.
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The tragedy of Keir Starmer
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Keir Starmer failed because he could never really explain why he wanted to be prime minister - my piece for @ObserverUK as the Labour leader quits
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‘My foster parents taught me that if you are loved, you will be destroyed’: @lemnsissay
On a walk around his childhood town of Ashton-in-Makerfield, the poet and broadcaster reflects to @RSylvester1 on his time in care, why St George’s flags don’t worry him, and the country’s future ahead of the byelection
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Ever young in spirit, Hockney never quite stopped being a new prodigy
From My Parents and A Bigger Splash to his caustic character studies and iPad inventiveness, the late artist delighted in pushing creative boundaries right to the end, writes @LauraCummingArt
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Ten years after my wife, Jo Cox, was murdered, I believe our country is in peril bit.ly/4eqHcW0
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Replying to @tes
GCSE, AS and A level grades are, at best, "reliable to one grade either way". How does this "maintain public confidence in regulated qualifications"?
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In search of George Michael (and the fuck tree) with @Sathnam observer.co.uk/news/national…
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In this week’s @RSylvester1 on Politics newsletter, she explores how Restore has put Nigel Farage between a rock and a hard right place.
To read the rest of the piece, head to our link in bio, and to receive Rachel’s newsletter every week: observer.co.uk/newsletters
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The dilemma of the three audiences Andy Burnham must win over - my piece for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/politics…
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Britain’s fiscal position, structure of its national debt and too few natural buyers are real constraints. More state-lead growth is possible:but to lose market confidence will shatter everything.Disdain for the bond markets will soon scupper Andy Burnh... observer.co.uk/news/politics…
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Not so much Macbeth as The Comedy of Errors
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Starmer’s incapacities are obvious. However he has a mandate. As soon as he is replaced in however an ‘orderly fashion’ British media bias will become deadly. One rule on lack of mandates for the right: another for the left. The cabinet must plan skilfully; it could get worse.
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Labour’s vote share has halved in 22 months. Yes, there is anti-incumbent pressure in all democracies. The wider media ecosystem is intensely hostile. But without more sheer political craft and reasons for hope, Labour is trapped. Its task now is to change that. Can it? Will it?








