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GK to Gurugram: A field guide to encroach like the rich (and never be called encroachers)

A few months ago, I was walking through a part of Delhi whose two letters, if said without context, still haunt unsuccessful UPSC aspirants. GK. Thankfully not General Knowledge, but Greater Kailash, one of the city's richest addresses.

Newslaundry

Has internal security become indefensible?

An important conversation was set off this week when the chairman of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council, former house speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, called for the dissolution of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc), questioning not only its purpose but its massive and opaque budget and chequered record.

Bangkok Post

OPINION - Surrounded by losers, misfits and boozers, our kitchen brigades should be cherished

‘You’d struggle to find this collection of rejects and emotional refugees outside the closing credits of a Guy Ritchie film’: Professional chef Alasdair Gill reveals what really goes on behind the swinging kitchen doors of the London dining scene

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The hill I will die on: Radio 4’s Today programme has become really annoying since I left

With its gushing interviewees and weird (y’know) ways of talking, the BBC news flagship show I used to present now has me harrumphing at the radio, says former presenter John Humphrys

The Guardian - UK

Amnesty bill leaves young out in the cold

The Senate's main amendment to the so-called "amnesty bill" -- excluding Section 112 offences, including cases involving juveniles -- raises some solid questions: Have political conflicts really come to an end? And is Thailand really heading towards reconciliation?

Bangkok Post

Proven low-cost care could save mothers' lives

In early June, Melinda French Gates pledged US$215 million to improve women's health globally, with a focus on underfunded areas such as maternal care in Africa. The announcement comes at a critical moment. Every day, more than 700 women die during and following pregnancy and childbirth, though many of the…

Bangkok Post

Eyeing future of UK–Thailand ties

As I look back upon my time as the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Thailand, I do so with deep gratitude for five remarkable years in a country that has offered partnership, friendship and inspiration in equal measure. It has been an enormous privilege to represent the UK here and to…

Bangkok Post

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Fair rules needed

Re: "Nominee crackdown steps up", ( BP, July 5).

Bangkok Post

Hold Isoc accountable

The Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc), the state's national security apparatus, is once again in the media spotlight, mired in reputational fallout. This time, former House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha suggested in parliament that Isoc should be abolished because its duties overlap with those of other agencies and its…

Bangkok Post

The Guardian view on disability benefits: Pip must not become another route for cuts

Editorial: Stronger European welfare states expose a Tory myth. Benefits can enable independence, work and growth

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Homer: The Odyssey is more modern than we might like to think

Editorial: The universal themes addressed by one of humanity’s greatest storytellers more than merit Hollywood box-office treatment

The Guardian - UK

Burnham will have to master something Starmer couldn’t: the art of dealing with Donald Trump

The new PM will need a superb foreign secretary and the ability to get like-minded countries on board. Early signs suggest he may have the right skills, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Congratulations, Andy Burnham PM – now for some hard choices

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As he is confirmed as our next prime minister, the MP for Makerfield should follow his predecessor in one regard and make growth his top priority – and then undo the strictures placed on the economy by the Starmer government

The Independent UK

One thought on the Clacton contenders: the ‘establishment’ looks a bit different these days, doesn’t it?

Nigel Farage has billed his byelection as a clash with the powers that be. To wit: Laurence Fox, a naked celebrity and a man with a bin on his head, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Platner proves Democrats need to rethink their image of a ‘man of the people’

For progressives too, working-class heroes are bearded, buff white guys. Their treatment of women can be overlooked

The Guardian - US

The Nato summit exposed the real source of Trump’s power

It comes from his willingness to violate all norms, rules and laws – and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces

The Guardian - UK

Once again Trump brought his wrecking ball to the Nato summit, and once again the alliance survived. But for how long?

As the US president swung between threats to take Greenland and promises of help for Ukraine, pledges of a ‘stronger Nato’ were lost in the wind, says Paul Taylor, senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre

The Guardian - UK

Count Binface alone can‘t clean up British politics. MPs now have that chance, and they must seize it

Amid the allegations about dark money and funding, I have a solution: limit all single donations in a year – from any individual – to £100,000, says MP Stella Creasy

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The Guardian - US

Graham Platner is out. Troy Jackson should replace him

Democrats need a candidate who can speak to working-class, inland and rural Mainers. A logger from the North Woods seems like the obvious choice

The Guardian - US

Why was the pundit class so quick to defend Graham Platner?

To some of Platner’s most influential backers his swaggering, reckless and casually brutish masculinity was understood not as a liability, but as a virtue

The Guardian - UK

Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss

Britain’s PM-in-waiting is right that the country has been failed by 40 years of neoliberalism. There will be obstacles, but he must embrace the radicalism, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it?

The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - AU

Australian Jewish News removes article criticising treatment of Jewish Council’s Sarah Schwartz

Article was taken down by AJN but later republished on personal site of contributor Nomi Kaltmann. Plus: ABC Ombudsman’s intriguing investigation

The Guardian - AU

ABC and SBS coverage of the Middle East isn’t perfect – but the proposed solutions are ill-conceived and dangerous

After 40 years at the public broadcasters I know they must be accountable to all of the public and for editorial decisions they make, not ones imposed on them

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham may regret promising to deport the Rochdale grooming gang leader

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: By vowing to ‘stop at nothing’ to rid Britain of Shabir Ahmed, the PM-in-waiting has tapped into widespread fury at a Pakistan-born man jailed for the rape, abuse and trafficking of girls. But he has also handed himself the first major headache of his premiership

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