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Andy Burnham sworn in as UK’s seventh PM in ten years
Andy Burnham has been sworn in as Prime Minister, becoming the seventh person to hold the office in a decade and extending Westminster’s pattern of rapid leadership turnover. His appointment was met with caution from financial markets, and questions were raised about his government’s readiness, with reports suggesting insufficient preparation for the opening month following…
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Harry Kane insists England team-mates must stop talking about winning major silverware and focus on finally finishing the job after latest World Cup heartbreak
Harry Kane has called on his England team-mates to stop merely discussing ambitions of winning major trophies and instead focus on actually delivering, after the squad suffered another exit at the 2026 World Cup. The captain’s comments come amid renewed scrutiny of England’s persistent failure to convert talent and expectation into silverware, with the latest…
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“We certainly weren’t strutting around like Deep Purple. My God, they had a lot of fun. We did not have fun.” How the UK college rock scene shaped the genesis of Genesis
An excerpt from a new book celebrating the amateurish British university gig scene that launched the career of some of the world’s most famous bands
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‘Being American feels helpless and scary’: actor Ben Platt on nerves, queer songs and why he couldn’t do it without his husband
The star of Dear Evan Hansen plays a 1960s Greenwich Village crooner in hit queer musical Midnight at the Never Get. It’s the perfect outlet for his anxiety, he says In performance, Ben Platt is a mellifluous singer and loose-limbed dancer, with a fizzy back-note of neurotic New York. The stage – most famously, as…
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DAN HODGES: The Burnham era begins today – but the reality is he’s not yet ready for power. There’s no grid of announcements for his first month. An ally admitted: ‘We haven’t even got anyone to fill it in yet.’
Andy Burnham has taken over as Labour leader and Prime Minister, but according to Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges, he is doing so significantly underprepared for the role. Hodges argues that Burnham’s team wanted a longer handover period from Keir Starmer, who announced his resignation four weeks earlier, but Starmer refused to remain in place…
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Gracie Abrams Shares Two Bonus ‘Daughter From Hell’ Tracks
Gracie Abrams has released two surprise bonus tracks, “Out of Nowhere” and “Love Letter,” alongside her new album Daughter From Hell. The songs were made available as a limited-time download on iTunes, with Abrams announcing the surprise release on social media on Sunday night and thanking fans for their response to the record. Daughter From…
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A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema Film critic, historian and author of more than 40 books, David Thomson is back with another three-hour free jazz solo on the subject of the movies, though it’s a performance delivered with the…
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PETER VAN ONSELEN: Everyone is reading the new polls about Pauline Hanson wrong. It’s a reckoning for Albo – and disaster for Angus Taylor
An opinion piece by commentator Peter van Onselen argues that new opinion polling on Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is being widely misinterpreted. He contends the figures actually represent a warning sign for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government rather than simply reflecting a resurgence for Hanson, and suggests the numbers spell particular trouble for…