Another week in the race is over. As the contest rolled into July, five people said the same things they said last week, to some slightly different people, and one man got ready to say lots of things about two people, which a great many more people will read.
It was the week that Burnham didn’t quit, Balls didn’t smear and Michael Gove broke the hearts of millions of children, enraged thousands of teachers, disappointed hundreds of parents, and made one man very angry indeed.
In case you missed them, here are half a dozen of Uncut’s better-read pieces of the last week:
“It was like looking at bambi. So I shot him.” Watson on the moment he lost it with Gove
Ed Miliband’s taste in music causes an argument in the Uncut office*
Bounder doesn’t think Nick Clegg’s Your Freedom is big or clever
James Ruddick thinks the Tories are storing up glory by trashing our past
Nick Palmer argues Ken Clarke isn’t wrong, he just doesn’t mean it
John Woodcock on Ed Miliband and why he is wrong about flexible labour markets
*By office we mean Starbucks