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OPINION - London's lesson is change or die — and it's true for the Standard too

I did two spells at the Evening Standard, the first in the late 1980s, the second, as editor, between 2012 and 2017. In that first period of time, we covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, the Big Bang and its consequences, and the drama…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Jon Sopel: I’ve seen the Republicans up close and Britain’s Tories aren’t like them — they’re a unique brand of special

I am sitting writing this in a corner of the Birmingham ICC, a conference centre and concert venue as though designed by Max Escher with a confusing array of staircases going everywhere and nowhere, it seems. But that is not what strikes me as odd. More, I am struck by…

Evening Standard

Is this the most divisive baby name ever?

How much is too much when it comes to picking a name for your children, asks Katie Rosseinsky

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James Cleverly musters the Tory faithful after Robert Jenrick shoots himself in foot

COMMENTARY: Would-be leaders were trying to emulate David Cameron’s success in winning over the rank and file in 2005

Evening Standard

Michael Ancram obituary

Veteran Conservative politician who served as a Northern Ireland minister and chairman of the party

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch, Cleverly, Jenrick, Tugendhat: four ways for the Tories to reach the same wilderness

Each behaves as if they are vying to be PM when the reality is years in opposition, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Tory gasps as Robert Jenrick reveals daughter’s middle name is Thatcher

Leadership candidate tells party conference he thought it was a good way to remind daughter of a great PM

The Guardian - UK

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First look at ‘Brian and Margaret’, a Channel 4 drama depicting former PM Thatcher's final ever TV interview

The two-part drama will air on Channel 4 next year

Evening Standard

‘Hugely significant’: Who’s in the race to become UK Conservatives leader?

Four candidates hope to rule over the party trying to recover from historic electoral blow. Who are they?

Al Jazeera

Malcolm Turnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over Spycatcher affair

Exclusive: Former Australian PM witnessed ‘shocking act of perjury’ and says MI5 are still trying to hide something

The Guardian - UK

Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

The struggle between liberalism and reactionary strands of thought has gnawed away at the Tories since the party’s dawn

The Guardian - UK

The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee'

Theatrically censoring the "real-world politics" apparently did not amuse Bethesda.

PC Gamer

OPINION - Robert Peston: Keir Starmer is fast approaching his big moment of judgment

In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher…

Evening Standard

Winter Fuel Payment cut will haunt Labour 'forever', says veteran MSP

A VETERAN MSP has said Labour’s decision to cut the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) will be an “albatross around their neck forever”, as she…

The National (Scotland)

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The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage is a dreamer, just like David Steel

Brief letters: Preparing for government | Graham Rawle’s best work | Margaret Thatcher | The price of scans | Optical allusions

The Guardian - UK

Peter Jay obituary

Economic journalist and broadcaster labelled ‘the cleverest young man in England’

The Independent UK

Who is Lord Waheed Alli? The Labour donor embroiled in Starmer gifts row

Lord Alli was first appointed to Lords by Tony Blair in 1998 and fought to repeal Thatcher’s notorious Section 28 laws

The Guardian - UK

Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll obituary

Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum whose radical ideas and management style put her in the cultural firing line

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The Guardian - UK

The Siege by Ben Macintyre review – enthralling account of the Iranian embassy hostage crisis

In the most gripping study to date of the real-life 1980 drama, the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends unravels the complexity of an event that saw the SAS gatecrash live TV and made Mrs Thatcher a national heroine

The National (Scotland)

Ex-Labour MP: Keir Starmer's winter fuel cut will stick 'like Thatcher and the milk'

KEIR Starmer’s decision to take the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP) from all but the poorest pensioners will “stick like Thatcher and the milk” and…

The Conversation

At 60, the Sun hasn’t set – but the tabloid’s light is fading

“The British public believe it is time for a new newspaper, born of the age we live in. That is why the Sun rises brightly today.”

The Guardian - UK

Two tribes are at war for the Tory leadership. How to choose? Let me help

Rabid Trussonomics or naked nativism? With the race down to four runners, here’s my guide to a party reeling in two directions, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Beaten, marooned, demoralised – and yet still the right clings to Thatcher. I’ve seen them: they’re so lost

I went to a conference of rightwing pollsters and party grandees. It seems their only way forward is to look back, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Louise Haigh puts Labour’s socialist agenda on the ‘fast track’ with accelerated bus public ownership plan

Exclusive: Transport secretary Louise Haigh is set to accelerate her bid to undo Margaret Thatcher’s legacy on public transport

The Guardian - UK

The Tory leadership race says it all about the trouble they are in. Jenrick, Badenoch, Stride: what a crew!

The party has faced crisis before, but this feels different. It’s a battle for not much, says writer and Tory historian Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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