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It’s tempting for Starmer to fall back on the Blair playbook – what are the risks?

The former Labour leader’s appeal was his personality, but with the country on the rocks voters may overlook Starmer’s lack of charisma, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Review: Agreement brings to the forefront the fragility of our hard fought peace

McCafferty has taken a subject which could have been incredibly grey and littered it with humour which would delight both political anoraks and those who avoid the topic alike

Belfast Live

What is antisocial behaviour? According to my research, no one really knows

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans to crack down on antisocial behaviour. The proposals include making offenders wear hi-vis jackets to wash police cars and clean up vandalism, within 48 hours of being served a court order. Offenders may have to do other unpaid work in their local communities.

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Hope and scepticism around Cardiff Bay's £280m arena as plan moves ahead

The construction of the arena has been delayed and its price has grown by £100 million

Wales Online

Caught in the FTX storm: how a crypto high-flyer fell to Earth

The Maps payments app run by British-educated cryptocurrency tycoon Alex Grebnev, who was backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, has lost its Mastercard partnership amid a row over Russian users

The Guardian - UK

Ignore the detractors – Keir Starmer is a radical who can transform the country

He could marshal the progressive tradition that has always eluded the liberal left

The Guardian - UK

Brits can now be fined for drinking at bus stops and memorials in new booze law crackdown

Rishi Sunak is keen to clamp down on anti-social behaviour after polls showed it was a major area of concern for voters ahead of the summer's local elections and next year's general election

Daily Mirror

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Who will win the next general election? The odds and polls

Rishi Sunak is celebrating a sharp fall in inflation to 6.8%, bolstering his pledge to halve the rate by the end of the year.

The Week

How the Iraq war started

“Our mission is clear,” declared president George W. Bush following the ground invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”.

The Week

From Bush to Blix: what happened to the key figures in the Iraq war?

The ex-president is a painter, his VP an avid fly fisher, while Tony Blair has built a property empire. They appear unrepentant

The Guardian - US

History may yet be kind to Blair over the Iraq war

Letters: Yes, mistakes were made, but the invasion is what an ethical foreign policy looks like, argues Nick Martin-Clark. Plus letters from Dave Headey, Dr Jonathan Punt, Paul Tyler and Gregory Stock

The Guardian - UK

Women’s Tour fundraising campaign receives public backing from Alastair Campbell

Tony Blair's former comms director highlights major role played by race in growth of women’s cycling

Cycling Weekly

Rupert Murdoch's love Elena Zhukova, and the story of his many wives

The nonagenarian married his fifth wife in June this year. Here, we take a look back through the eventful love life of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch

Evening Standard

Woman who saw 6 brothers slaughtered in Iraq demands justice for ISIS genocide victims

The catastrophic decision to invade and occupy Iraq in 2003 led to the world’s most feared terrorist group, ISIS, emerging out of al-Qaeda and committing genocide against Nobel laureate Nadia and her people, the Yazidis

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Evening Standard

Why did Keir Starmer ignore the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War?

Starmer marched against the war in 2003 and called it a “breach of international law”. Now he prefers to ignore it

Daily Mirror

Mum of soldier, 19, killed in Iraq war bomb says Tony Blair 'murdered my son'

Speaking to the Mirror to mark the 20th anniversary of the invasion in Iraq, Rose Gentle has said the memories of her son, Fusilier Gordon Campbell Gentle, will never die but that Sir Tony Blair is to blame for his death

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch: Timeline of the News Corp billionaire’s four marriages

The media tycoon has been divorced four times, while his latest engagement has reportedly been called off

The Guardian - UK

All the warnings in the world couldn’t stop the Iraq war, or Tony Blair

Looking back after 20 years, I recall how an unswerving PM bullied MPs to get their votes and ignored cool heads, says the Labour MP Diane Abbott

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The Independent UK

Voices: I lost my son during the Iraq War. This is my message for Tony Blair

My wish is that the former prime minister retires with his millions, never to be seen in public life again, writes Peter Brierley

The Independent UK

A complete timeline of Rupert Murdoch’s marriages as he announces engagement to Ann Lesley Smith

The media tycoon has been married to four different women and is preparing to marry for a fifth time this summer

The Independent UK

How Blair’s ‘dodgy dossier’ was changed after Independent reporter spotted flaw in case for war

Veteran political reporter Donald Macintyre reveals how his claim that Saddam was ‘bad but not mad enough’ to start conflict caused alarm in No 10

The Guardian - UK

How Iraq war destroyed UK’s trust in politicians and left Labour in turmoil

Tony Blair’s decision to invade tore at successive Labour leaders and weakened the intelligence services

The Independent UK

So where were they, Mr Blair? How The Independent exposed the lie of Saddam’s WMD and the justification for an illegal war

The Independent titles vigorously opposed the Iraq war long before others saw the error of their support: Then-editor Tristan Davies reveals how, one month into the conflict, The Independent on Sunday became the first to highlight the failure to find weapons of mass destruction

Daily Mirror

'I was there in Iraq 20 years ago - the invasion left behind violence and chaos'

The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false

The Guardian - UK

Compare Iraq with Ukraine. It’s clear the era of US global supremacy is over

Washington’s power is suddenly threatened by a newly confident China and disquiet among leaders in the global south, says former Guardian chief foreign correspondent Jonathan Steele

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