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Burnham promises to break with 40 years of failure. Now he has to mean it
The prime minister gave the left much of what it wanted to hear in Liverpool. Moving words are the easy part – taking on the vested interests is where it gets hard.
BBC heading for avoidable ‘doom spiral’ with constant cuts, says NUJ
With hundreds more jobs at risk in local radio, sport and Wales, the NUJ warns that each round of cuts weakens the BBC’s case for public funding and invites the next.
Burnham’s national care service is the right idea, so why wait?
Daniel Emmett-Gulliver is no fan of the prime minister. But he says a national care service could be the NHS of our time, if Burnham has the courage to deliver it.
Our celebration of the people’s victory over fascism unites our communities
On Sunday 4 October 2026, the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, a march and rally in east London will mark the day when 250,000 antifascists blocked the way to Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts. The Cable Street 90 Organising Committee have issued the following statement about the event.
Young people hand CVs to a cardboard Burnham in climate jobs protest
With a million young people out of work, education or training, campaigners want the new prime minister to put them to work on the climate crisis.
Unite welcomes TfL plan to bring London buses back into public hands
With city hall spending almost £1.2bn a year subsidising private operators, TfL’s new publicly owned bus company will launch in late 2027 – and Unite wants it to go much further.
What’s left of Burnham’s promise?
Three months into his premiership, Andy Burnham’s cost-of-living wins amount to a few pounds a week – while the policy he once championed loudest, rent controls, has been ruled out by his own government. The party’s Liverpool conference is where that gap gets harder to ignore.
Rent controls won’t wreck landlords, but record rents are wrecking renters
Rents are at record highs and still rising. The landlord lobby says rent controls would wreck the market. The evidence says otherwise.
Arms export system ‘rigged’ to keep weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia and Israel, says report
Campaign Against Arms Trade says successive governments have sidestepped their own licensing rules and international law and the Burnham government shows no sign of changing course.