Top stories in the latest issue:

ORDER OF THE BROWN NOSE...
As the Burnham era opened, political commentators eager to impress the new regime made their bids with some fawning tweets.

CENTRE CIRCLE
Andy Burnham’s plans to distance himself from either Starmerism or aren’t helped by his decision to make a corporate lobbyist his political director.

LOCAL ZEROES
Andy Burnham should take heed from from the dysfunction at one of the most lavishly financially endowed regional bodies: Tees Valley.

TRADE SECRETS
A Lib Dem MP’s efforts to learn about a 2019 meeting involving Boris Johnson and Palantir’s Peter Thiel came up against a Cabinet Office brick wall.

IT’S ALL OVER NOW
One legacy of the 2026 World Cup will be progress in the fight against discrimination grinding to a halt, with a proliferation of racist incidents.

FOREIGN BUDDIES
Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick’s biggest donor is an investment manager running a fund that invests more in Europe than the UK.

POSTAL PATHS
A further delay in the main report of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is another blow to the scandal’s victims and a relief to its perpetrators.