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.
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.