Hillsborough
If you consider yourself left-wing, then there are a shedload of reasons to dislike Andy Burnham. But this speech is definitely not one of them. He's brilliant in this, and his exposure of Establishment corruption and wrongdoing here is one of the most forthright, honest and emotive I've seen from Parliament in years. Burnham's turning point came in 2009, after his speech at the 20-year anniversary Memorial Service was jeered and sliced by chants of justice. This prompted him to setup the Hillsborough Independent Panel, whose revealed evidence prompted the latest inquiry, leading to the verdict of an unlawful killing. It begs the question, just what would have happened had Burnham's speech passed through without comment? And what would have happened had the Hillsborough families not hunted down the truth of the disaster so tiresomely: paying for private prosecutions, or, in the case of the criminologist Phil Scraton, ticking carefully through investigatory steps ac...