How Andy Burnham ruined the eclipse.

On my way to South Milton beach where I went to watch it I was listening to the news on the radio. You were hosting a COBRA meeting after the most ruinously hot summer ever, over 1000 wildfires burning across the UK, crops dying in the fields, almost 3000 excess deaths, nurses fainting in hospitals. Surely this is the moment, I thought, where for the first time in your 3 weeks in charge, you'll…