Suzanne Moore

Greater love has no man than… one who would lay down his seat in Norwich South for Andy Burnham.

Greater love has no man than… one who would lay down his seat in Norwich South for Andy Burnham. This is the offer that MP Clive Lewis has made, because to become a Labour Party leader you need to be an MP. And apparently, what will save the party is Manchester mayor (and non-MP) Andy Burnham. No one else, certainly not Starmer or the other ditherers.

It was Danny Dyer who best encapsulated the mood of the nation on Brexit in an outburst on TV. “Who knows about Brexit?” he asked on an episode of

The novel I took on holiday remains unread, as I have become mildly obsessed with the purchases of Peter Murrell. I will admit to a bit of drunk midnight shopping myself. Items that I must have deemed necessary at 2am leave me bewildered when they arrive. (Mostly they are garments suitable only for 14-year-olds and, of course, stupid kitchen gadgets.)

“A woman of pensionable age dancing around in a corset? Call the police!”

In a last-minute attempt to secure a legacy, Starmer is rushing through legislation that won’t be meaningfully enforced

Keir Starmer’s day-to-day existence must be a living doomscroll. One bad thing after another. No wonder that a couple of days before the Makerfield by-election, he suddenly wants to grab a policy that...

It’s almost as if someone wanted to hide something, isn’t it? Maybe someone thought that sneaking out an announcement that the controversial puberty blocker trial – which was paused in February by regulators – is going ahead after all, on today of all days, was a good idea. All eyes are on the by-election and where Labour goes next after all.

Perhaps nothing in Sir Keir Starmer's premiership will become him as much as his departure from it.

Perhaps nothing in Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership will become him as much as his departure from it. Said to be full of volcanic rage at being betrayed by colleagues, he has appeared, till now, peeved,...