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OPINION - Why it doesn't really matter who the vice president is (until the president dies)

Political attacks are difficult to get right, because there is often a yawning chasm between the messenger and the target audience. You may believe – with every fibre of your being – that your opponent is cruel, evil, a danger to all people everywhere. But so what?

Evening Standard

A new The First Descendant update gives players what they want — more space, less waiting times, better rewards

Nexon has released a new The First Descendant patch, bringing some much-appreciated quality-of-life and farming improvements ahead of the next content update.

Windows Central

SNP face tough challenge from Labour in this Edinburgh constituency

The sun is shining on the promenade at Portobello Beach – proper taps aff weather...

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Just one term? There is a strategy that can get Keir Starmer to No 10 – and keep him there

The answer is for Labour to work with progressive parties. Voting patterns show just how effective that would be, says Compass director Neal Lawson

The Guardian - UK

'Action not words': Meet Green election candidates inspired to stand by their kids

TWO Green candidates inspired to stand for election by their children have insisted other parties are not talking enough about protecting and…

The National (Scotland)

‘The Blair Witch Project’ stars still struggle with finances

Actors took odd jobs, temp work, even after reaching sensational fame

Fortune

Protester interrupts Keir Starmer’s Labour party manifesto launch speech

Keir Starmer says Labour is no longer a 'party of protest' in retort to heckler

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General election: The best quotes from the BBC 7-way party debate

From ‘Blair without the flair’ to a Tory cabinet minister’s admission that Rishi Sunak’s decision to leave the D-Day commemorations early was ‘completely wrong’

The Independent UK

Who is David Lammy, the new foreign secretary?

The 51-year-old has been a London MP since 2000 and had his first government role under Tony Blair

Evening Standard

Independent readers share their views on ‘statesmanlike’ Starmer and ‘obnoxious’ Sunak after BBC debate

The final televised head-to-head of the general election campaign was seen by many as lacking substantive discussion, reducing it to a spectacle of squabbling and point-scoring

The Independent UK

Human Rights Act will be safe with a Labour government

Letters: James Toon, who helped develop the act in the 1990s, responds to an article by Shami Chakrabarti on the pressing need for equal treatment

The Guardian - UK

‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive

Starmer and Reeves have created 2020s version of party’s 1990s ‘prawn cocktail offensive’ – and business appears hungry for it

The Guardian - UK

Today in Supreme Court History: April 30, 1789

4/30/1789: President Washington's inauguration. He would appoint eleven members to the Supreme Court: Chief Justices Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth, and Justices Wilson, Blair, Cushing, Rutledge, Iredell, Johnson, Paterson, and Chase.

Reason

Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

Sir Keir’s team will inherit a poisoned chalice from the Tories, but progress needn’t depend on the state opening its wallet

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Passport Canada Says Sorry to Grandma for Saying She Can't List Palestine as Birthplace

Last month, Canadian authorities told a 90-year-old woman that she couldn't list Palestine as her birthplace on her new passport even if she was able to do so in the past.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss' PopCon and the UK's strangest (yet powerful) think tanks

Now that Liz Truss has launched her PopCon ‘movement’, it is worth looking at other non-governmental organisations ‘helping’ the parties with policy advise and research — just what are these think tanks up to?

The Guardian - UK

To get to net zero, we may have to sell off the UK’s future

The cost of decarbonising is vast. Something like the privatisations of the 80s may be needed to raise enough funds

Evening Standard

The Crown Season 6 Part 2 on Netflix review: Wills, Harry and co bow out with a last few royal rumbles

The younger royals are a poor substitute for some titans of the 20th century, but Peter Morgan has managed to pull off a decent ending to this saga

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The Guardian - UK

The best politics books of 2023

Rory Stewart’s bridge-burning memoir; the rise and demise of Liz Truss; and what Trump’s aide saw at the White House

WhatToWatch

Frankie, a rat and rows in I'm A Celeb 2023 last night: episode 4 recap

I'm A Celebrity 2023 episode 4 recap: Nella Rose has a fiery debate with Nigel Farage.

The Guardian - UK

Israel is clear about its intentions in Gaza – world leaders cannot plead ignorance of what is coming

The UN is warning of a ‘risk of genocide’ against Palestinians. Future pleas of ‘If I knew then what I know now’ will not cut it, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

I will never leave Labour – but my new membership card makes me uneasy

There is now a union flag on one side, and a call to put ‘country first’ on the other. Does this really give anyone a lovely, warm, modern vibe, asks Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Lord Clark calls for freedom of information review after data breaches

Leading author of FoI Act says system weakened by government and civil servants’ resistance to openness

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer’s journey continues — he has now been blessed by Tony Blair

Yesterday I found myself at the big Tony Blair Institute conference, AKA Blairstock. It’s like Glastonbury for centrist nerds but with better loos. And the only drugs anyone was on were high-functioning ashwagandha supplements.

Daily Mirror

'Fortune favours the bold and Starmer must know he'll never be forgiven if Labour lose'

Haunted by ghosts of Neil Kinnock in 1992 and Ed Miliband in 2010, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory is the nightmare of increasingly optimistic Labour Shadow Cabinet Ministers

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