What Europe Is Saying About Britain
France, Spain, Germany and Portugal all watched Andy Burnham rise and Keir Starmer cling on — and each saw a different Britain. A tour of the same story in four mirrors.
Josh Simons and the Laundered Machine
He fronted a covert, dark-money political operation, helped drag Labour onto Faragist ground, and was copied into the surveillance of journalists reporting on it. Now he has cleared the path to Parliament for Andy Burnham and is heading back toward power — and almost no one is asking how.
Too Big to Fail: The Outsourced State
How outsourcing core state functions to Serco, Carillion and G4S produced fraud, collapse and vanished accountability — and where it began.
James Bond and the Politics of Whiteness
Idris Elba was “too street” to play Bond, they said — too far from how he was written. But Bond has no original: remade every era, his racist novels quietly edited, his canon now authored by a video game. In a character who could be anyone, the one thing held sacred is that he stays white. That…
The Week Labour Cracked Open
How a backloaded defence settlement became a full leadership crisis — and what's circling the wreckage.