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Allow teachers to fine parents over pupils’ bad behaviour, says Tony Blair’s thinktank

Report argues for more powers, but teachers say this could strain already fraught relationships with parents

The Guardian - UK

Have those who say Starmer is failing forgotten the madness of the Tory years already?

The PM can’t simply sit back and hope things will settle down. But look to history: there is an inevitability about his predicament, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair calls for roll out of digital ID to tackle immigration and spiralling NHS costs

The former prime minister warns politicians that anyone who tries to manage the status quo will lose

The Independent UK

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The Guardian view on politicians using business logic: public services aren’t startups

Editorial: When an insecure government borrows credibility from business leaders, a lot can go wrong

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Everything you wanted to know about the spending review (but were afraid to ask)

In today’s newsletter: All governments do them. But what exactly are they and how can you tell if they worked or not?

The Guardian - UK

Best books 2024: Our writers pick their favourite reads from 2024

All the books we loved in 2024

Evening Standard

Bullies can sense weakness – which is why Labour must not shy away from taking on the global far right

By failing to challenge extremist narratives around immigration, Starmer is weakening, not strengthening, his government’s position, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

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UK's Aristocratic Lawmakers Prepare For Life After The Lords

UK hereditary lawmaker Richard Fletcher-Vane, better known as Lord Inglewood, will soon no longer commute the few hundred miles from his country house in northwest England to the House of Lords in London -- and he is not happy about it.

International Business Times

Britain has never looked more exposed, adrift in the Atlantic in a world pulsing with perils

Sir Keir Starmer is confronted with several stark strategic dilemmas and they won’t be resolved by wishful thinking

The Guardian - UK

‘I feel I’ve upset a few people over the years’: actor Brian Cox on overrated co-stars, charmless politicians and the joy of smoking weed

He’s famed for grumpy roles and outspoken views, but don’t be fooled – the Succession star is a pussycat at heart. He talks about growing up in poverty, falling in love with his wife – and out of love with Labour

The Guardian - UK

We cannot afford for Starmer’s government to fail. Because Farage is lying in wait

It is not enough for the Labour leader’s ‘milestones’ to be achieved. Voters must feel the improvement in their daily lives, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

After months of dysfunction and miscommunication, is the Starmer method finally working?

The prime minister won’t learn charisma, but he has a record of going places by doggedly clearing the obstacles in his way, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Chernobyl effects ‘overestimated’ says Blair Institute as it pushes for nuclear energy

The Tony Blair Institute said global emissions would have been lower had an “inaccurate” portrayal of the technology’s safety had not taken hold

The Independent UK

Blair thinktank criticises ‘unfounded’ nuclear fears after Chornobyl

Tony Blair Institute says global carbon emissions would be 6% lower if not for ‘inaccurate narrative’ over 1986 disaster

The Guardian - UK

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‘Why would Prince Andrew defend Epstein?’ ex-Newsnight editor Esme Wren on scoops, the queen and Brexit

Wren has been at the forefront of broadcast news for 25 years, editing Newsnight and now Channel 4 News. She talks about slippery politicians – and the blockade on journalism in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s new delivery targets are intended to give an electric jolt to Whitehall

The view in Number 10 is that work on the government’s missions has been too sluggish and now needs to be driven harder and faster

The Independent UK

Voices: Blairites are in despair over Keir Starmer’s flailing leadership

COMMENT: A person close to the former PM said the current government is like a bunch of unimaginative ‘librarians and academics’ but, writes John Rentoul, for some Starmer is not just a librarian or an academic but a funeral director

Evening Standard

John Prescott ‘got a reception like Beatlemania’, Prime Minister says in tribute

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to Lord Prescott, who died last week, calling him a ‘towering figure in the Labour movement and in this House’.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Labour looks set to overpromise and underdeliver on housebuilding

I'm instinctively suspicious of restaurants with large menus. How on earth can anything actually be fresh? And I feel the same way about writers who will happily offer an opinion on any subject. Surely they can't be an expert on everything? It is for this reason that I try to…

The Guardian - UK

The John Prescott I knew: Blair’s ‘beautiful people’ tried to erase him – he had other plans

Once frozen out by the New Labour elite, John Prescott fought his way in from the cold to become a loyal deputy leader. Toby Helm recalls a bruising political career

The Guardian - UK

Why it was such a joy to interview John Prescott and discover his sweet, sad soul

The former deputy prime minister, who died this week, spoke freely and didn’t care what journalists thought of him – he was everything today’s guarded politicians are not

The Conversation

The Prescott punch: what a 2001 brawl between a deputy prime minister and a voter tells us about the changing nature of British politics

The warm tributes paid to John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister who has died aged 86, reflect a memorable politician of a seemingly bygone era. While his achievements over a long career were vast, the enduring image for most people is of Prescott punching a voter during the 2001…

The Guardian - UK

Chronic pain and ravaged mental health: this is the brutal reality of Britain’s new working class

The story of former Amazon worker Karolina Sobczak reveals much about the people who keep our society running – at huge personal cost, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Yvette Cooper to set out crackdown on antisocial behaviour including jail terms

Persistent offenders will face up to two years in prison under Respect orders, as police get powers to seize vehicles

The Independent UK

Hooligans face two years in jail for wreaking havoc in towns and neighbourhoods

Yvette Cooper harked back to Tony Blair’s anti-social behaviour crackdown, launching ‘respect orders’ for repeat offenders and giving police tough new powers

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