This week Jack Blanchard heads north to Manchester to talk music, football, history and politics with Mayor Andy Burnham. In his favored city centre bar, Burnham — currently the favorite to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader — talks about his childhood growing up on the outskirts of the city, and how Manchester’s legendary music scene inspired him to Cambridge University.
He discusses the highs and the lows of his 20-year career in Westminster, and the struggle he faced even as a senior minister to get the Whitehall machine delivering for the North. He also runs the rule over Starmer’s performance as Labour leader so far, and admits his own fears for the future as Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine spirals further and further out of control.
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<p>Some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains have opened up on the reason the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar might not work with President Bola Tinubu. The Secretary of the PDP in Yobe State, Ahmed Waziri, told The Whistler that the intention of Tinubu’s administration is still foggy and Atiku is observing the situation. […]</p>
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<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Banner200115r-1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="The morning read for Thursday, Jan. 9" title="The morning read for Thursday, Jan. 9" style="float:right;" decoding="async" />Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Trump speaks with Justice Alito amid push to halt criminal sentencing (Katherine Faulders, Jonathan Karl, & Devin Dwyer, ABC News) Trump Tests Power...</p>
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets across France on Saturday after President Emmanuel Macron rejected the French left’s demands on forming a government and…
