Don’t worry: we get that sinking feeling too when Andy Burnham opens his mouth

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If you’ve ever watched a politician promise you a three-course meal only to hand you a single stale budget-brand biscuit, you will recognise that exact sinking feeling I get whenever Andy Burnham opens his mouth. Andy Burnham: not sensible For years now, he’s been held up as Labour’s great sensible left hope – the man who stood up for the north, who’d take on the Westminster machine, who might just drag the party back to its working-class roots without scaring off anyone who owns more than one house. It’s a great story. It’s also about as believable as a government minister…

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UK regime’s debanking attack on Canary too much even for Trump administration

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Lloyds bank’s debanking attack on the Canary has reached the US White House and drawn comment from Trump’s senior diplomacy official. Trump’s sanction-attacks on Francesca Albanese and International Criminal Court officials to protect Israel have been widely and rightly condemned. But, surprisingly, Trump’s ‘Under-Secretary for Public Diplomacy’ Sarah B Rogers has condemned the financial attack on free speech and independent journalism. In a post on her official X feed, Rogers said that the attack was clearly political and signalled a world that nobody should want to live in: Any financial institution doing business in the United States should take care to…

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