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Voices: Has Kemi Badenoch finally shown the killer instinct to save her as Tory leader?

COMMENT: Her filleting of Starmer and Reeves in the Commons is arguably her biggest success since becoming opposition leader. It could silence complaints by her Conservative critics that she lacks the ruthless skills needed to become prime minister, writes Simon Walters.

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan says he now ‘admires’ Margaret Thatcher because of Keir Starmer’s politics

‘I never thought I’d say that,’ Alan Partridge star admitted

The Independent UK

Voices: Is this the end of your ISA? Not necessarily…

COMMENT : Despite their popularity, cash ISAs offer dismal returns, says James Moore. For once, Rachel Reeves may be right to slash the annual allowance and steer savers to riskier investments

The Independent UK

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Queen Elizabeth Had a Surprising Favorite Household Chore That You'll Never See Coming

"I'm not making this up," a former prime minister said of the late Queen's normal-person habit.

Marie Claire

Coup for Nigel Farage as former Tory leader of Margaret Thatcher's London council defects to Reform

Dan Thomas quits with swipe at Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch

Evening Standard

One way or another, it’s time to stick up for Keir Starmer and the art of the big, fat U-turn

As with so many things, Margaret Thatcher is to blame for making the obstinacy brand a given in our politics. It hasn’t done us any good, says writer and autor Stefan Stern

The Guardian - UK

‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn

We’ve got into a mess with extreme content because nobody wants to talk about pornography, says Gabby Bertin

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Voices: Keir Starmer accidentally admits his first year has been a failure

COMMENT: The prime minister said his party’s biggest mistake is that ‘we haven’t always told our story as well as we should’ – an attempt to minimise a problem that is fundamental, argues John Rentoul

The Independent UK

‘They feel betrayed’: how Reform UK is targeting votes in Britain’s manufacturing heartlands

In the first in a series, the Guardian maps out the rise in support for Farage and how parties are targeting the UK’s deindustrialised areas

The Guardian - UK

The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunism, says Lanre Bakare, an arts and culture correspondent for the Guardian

The Guardian - UK

Theatrical hitmaker Justin Martin on Prima Facie’s follow-up: ‘It wrestles with how to bring up boys’

The director of Jodie Comer’s tour de force is now staging Inter Alia, another legal drama by Suzie Miller. He talks about steering Stranger Things: The First Shadow, resisting the classics and his double act with Stephen Daldry

The Guardian - UK

Shifty review – Adam Curtis’s new show is an utter rarity: stylish, intelligent TV with something to say

The celebrated documentarian’s five-part series charts the decline of Britain’s democracy with a witty, kaleidoscopic selection of archive footage. It begins, of course, with Margaret Thatcher

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war

Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch admits she is still learning how to lead the Tories: ‘It takes a while’

Conservative Party leader likens herself to Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron as she says it takes time to get to grips with the role

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Reeves hits back at spending review critics claiming ‘my choices are Labour choices’

Exclusive: As a cabinet civil war heats up over her spending review, Rachel Reeves has written for The Independent defending her motivations and choices as chancellor

Evening Standard

MP repeats calls for inquiry into British role in 1984 storming of Golden Temple

Speaking in the House of Commons, Warinder Juss pressed for an ‘independent, judge-led public inquiry, to get to the bottom of what happened’.

The Conversation

Why do some people need less sleep than others? A gene variation could have something to do with it

Have you ever noticed how some people bounce out of bed after just a few hours of sleep, while others can barely function without a solid eight hours?

The National (Scotland)

The key lesson for the SNP in the latest Scottish independence polling

If anyone felt a touch of déjà vu after hearing about the new Norstat poll suggesting 58 of adults in Scotland would vote for independence in the…

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BBC ‘defied’ Thatcher with ‘brave’ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, says author Jeanette Winterson

Lesbian coming-of-age drama came out at a time when former PM was seeking to stop positive portrayals of homosexuality

Evening Standard

Sarwar labels Farage ‘a pathetic little man’ amid row over Reform ad

The Scottish Labour leader said the Reform UK leader ‘thinks Hamilton is some kind of show on the West End of London’.

The Independent UK

‘Pathetic’ Nigel Farage is ‘Margaret Thatcher tribute act’, Scottish Labour leader says amid row over Reform ad

The Scottish Labour leader said the Reform UK leader ‘thinks Hamilton is some kind of show on the West End of London’

The Conversation

The hidden power of cultural exchanges in countering propaganda and fostering international goodwill

At a time when China is believed to spend about US$8 billion annually sending its ideas and culture around the world, President Donald Trump has proposed to cut by 93% the part of the State Department that does the same thing for the United States.

The Conversation

What if Hitler was assassinated and World War II ended in compromise? Catherine Chidgey imagines a parallel reality

Catherine Chidgey’s ninth novel, The Book of Guilt, has been hotly anticipated. Following the critical and commercial success of her last two novels, it was the subject of a bidding war between UK publishers. The Book of Guilt is also now the first of her books to be released in…

The Conversation

Starmer’s winter fuel allowance ‘U-turn’ sets him on a tricky path with backbenchers and voters

The U-turn is a long and, depending on your point of view, honourable or dishonourable tradition in British politics. Now Keir Starmer has been accused of following this tradition after heavily hinting the UK government is reconsidering last year’s decision to deny the winter fuel allowance to millions of pensioners.

The Independent UK

Starmer U-turns on winter fuel payment cuts – but millions could still miss out this winter

PM forced to announce huge policy reversal to see off threat of revolt by Labour MPs – with pledge to make more pensioners eligible for cash to pay cold weather energy bills

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