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.
<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/skrmetti-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Tennessee ban on youth transgender care" title="Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Tennessee ban on youth transgender care" style="float:right;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/skrmetti-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/skrmetti-570x570.jpg 570w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/skrmetti-500x500.jpg 500w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/skrmetti-1000x1000.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />During almost two-and-a-half hours of debate on Wednesday, nearly all of the courts conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teenagers. Three transgender teens, their families, and a Memphis physician, along with the Biden...</p>
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<p>The self-proclaimed interim government of Yoruba Nation has said that President Bola Tinubu and the governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, will face the consequences of war if they fail to release activists who were arrested for hoisting Yoruba Nation flags at the Oyo State Secretariat. The deputy coordinator of the Yoruba Nation agitators, Victor […]</p>
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<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/supremecourt-12-scaled-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Supreme Court to hear “nondelegation” challenge to telecom access program" title="Supreme Court to hear “nondelegation” challenge to telecom access program" style="float:right;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/supremecourt-12-scaled-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/supremecourt-12-scaled-1-570x570.jpeg 570w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/supremecourt-12-scaled-1-500x500.jpeg 500w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/supremecourt-12-scaled-1-1000x1000.jpeg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" />The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a major challenge to the federal “E-rate program,” which subsidizes telephone and high-speed internet services in schools, libraries, rural areas, and low-income communities in urban areas. The stakes are high, not only because of the...</p>
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