Northern Conquest

Andy Burnham’s Wagnerian triumph

British politics this week has been less soap opera, and more German opera

Letter of the week: The eye, the hand, the heart

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Andy Burnham does a Lenin

The epic register does not come naturally to British politics

My obviously doomed attempt to run faster than a horse

Could a marathon across the Welsh hills be the cure for a fear of all things equine?

Slava Ukraini! Slava Pride!

Amid the chaos of war, Ukraine celebrates its biggest ever LGBT-rights event

Did the iPhone destroy British politics?

Steve Jobs really did a number on Westminster

Burnham’s supporters are still nervous

Is the new MP vulnerable on his left?

Everyday racism is becoming a political norm

Online rhetoric is drifting into real intolerance

World Cup tickets are a scandal

But it still feels good to watch Scotland win

To understand Trump, look into the filthy waters of Washington’s reflecting pool

Nature had reasserted itself; marine scientists marvelled at the speed of algal growth

Andy Burnham must embrace “normie populism”

Declare war on the Nimbys, the landlords, the management consultants and the vulture capitalists

George Forster: Enlightenment iconoclast

Andrea Wulf returns to the world of 18th-century intellectual adventurers, with a life of the naturalist George Forster

Why the Islamic Republic of Iran endures

The brutal theocracy maintained from Tehran came to power on the back of decades of misrule

Billy Budd’s epic universality

A collaboration between three geniuses of different forms, this is truly Britain’s greatest opera

Jodie Foster is a force of nature in A Private Life

But this new crime mystery struggles with a personality disorder

Alice and Steve is an embarrassing mess

This TV series has no right to call itself a comedy

Glengarry Glen Ross is pulling its punches

The all-female cast of David Mamet’s Pulitzer-winning play is a confusing attempt at timelessness and modern social commentary

Lola Young isn’t messy on stage

In her first London show after taking a break from performing, the singer is more together than in the…

Hollywood failed Marilyn Monroe

The actress, who would have turned 100 this month, was born both too early and too late to be…

Globalisation’s greatest triumph: the chicken shop

Brits just can’t stop frying the hell out of chickens

Beer and sandwiches: At the Nottingham House in Sheffield

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We need better social media – not no social media

The internet made me who I am

I’m off to an anti-racism demo to try and get recognised

All I can offer in the way of violence is either a wounding mention in this column or a…

Cristiano Ronaldo is old, but not as old as me

Let’s hear it for the World Cup oldies

May 1975: A symposium on the upcoming referendum on the Common Market