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Voices: Ousting Starmer is only the beginning of Andy Burnham’s struggles

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The former Manchester mayor should listen to Rishi Sunak and get things right from day one if he is to avoid the fate of the man he looks set to replace

The Independent UK

Labour's last chance? Burnham set to replace Starmer as UK faces far-right surge

Another post-Brexit prime minister bites the dust. Keir Starmer has owned up to the obvious: that he's too unpopular to lead the Labour Party into the next general election. After replacing the hard left's Jeremy Corbyn, the same Starmer won a landslide election victory two years ago on the promise…

France 24

The Guardian view on Labour’s leadership: Andy Burnham has a story. He must also have a plan

Editorial: Keir Starmer won power but never explained Britain’s crisis. The new MP for Makerfield offers a sharper diagnosis – and one that voters can understand

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian view on the death of Carlo Ginzburg: a historian who taught us to think about outsiders

Editorial: The work of one of Italy’s greatest scholars focused on ordinary lives oppressed by power and prejudice. That approach resonates today

The Guardian - UK

Old Town danger

Following the collapse of a century-old concrete canopy in Bangkok's Old Town last week, the incoming Bangkok governor faces an undeniable mandate: the safety of the city's ageing buildings must immediately top the administration's agenda.

Bangkok Post

The resilience of Thai-Russian relations

To truly grasp Thailand's current relationship with Russia, one must understand the core tenets of Thai diplomacy. In Thai foreign policy, fostering friendships, minimising enemies, and preserving room for strategic adjustment are enduring virtues. The bilateral bond between the two nations -- which will celebrate its 130th anniversary next year…

Bangkok Post

Progress against Aids still fragile

United to End Aids", a new UNAids report released ahead of the 2026 UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/Aids, sends a clear warning: progress against Aids is real but fragile.

Bangkok Post

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The flawed case for slavery reparations

At a "high-level United Nations consultative conference" in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade to make a formal apology and pay reparations to the descendants of the enslaved millions (or at least to the countries that the…

Bangkok Post

Good luck, Andy Burnham – you’ll need more than a smile and a better bus service to succeed in No 10

As prime minister, Starmer acted with dignity. What a pity that those Labour colleagues who ousted him could not do the same, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Angry and lonely after my marriage ended, I came dangerously close to embracing the manosphere

My world became tiny and my dependence on the online world grew. The internet told me women were to blame, and I started to believe it

The Guardian - AU

At my friend’s citizenship ceremony, I was moved by the quiet pride in the faces of new Australians

Belonging didn’t start that day. The event recognised what had already been lived, the years of steadily building lives

The Guardian - AU

If we can’t keep rats out of Britain’s jails, we shouldn’t be putting children in them

The story of the therapy ferret used to kill rats at Wetherby young offenders institution raises question after question. Not least: is this any place for humans, whatever they have done, asks Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Cracks are showing in Trump’s white, blue-collar base

Voters are upset that Trump has failed to deliver on his economic promises. That’s bad news for Republicans in November

The Guardian - US

French towns are fining men for going topless. Quel dommage!

Take off your shirt on a Narbonne street and it will cost you €150. Could it happen in the UK? I sincerely hope not

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We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career

White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s fatal flaw? The blankness on to which voters projected their years of frustration

His government was directionless and confused, and from that murk emerged the Peter Mandelson scandal, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Don’t worry, a politician can’t present the Today programme. Michael Grade is wrong about that – and GB News

As the former Ofcom chair says extraordinary things about the rightwing channel and its critics, a factcheck would not go amiss, say Stewart Purvis and Chris Banatvala, both formerly of Ofcom

The Guardian - UK

I disagree with Andy Burnham’s politics. But as former health secretaries, we both know the NHS needs to be fixed

As prime minister, he would have a unique chance to turn the world’s most bureaucratic health service into its most innovative one, says former health secretary Jeremy Hunt

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The aftershocks of Brexit’s failure could be gaining strength – a fearful prospect for Ireland

On our side of the Irish Sea we have made the best of a bad job. But we saw the damage a reckless British government could do, says Fintan O’Toole

The Guardian - AU

Pauline Hanson and Donald Trump both exploit voters’ fury. But her popularity is rising while his is at a low

Hanson is taking off here partly because of the global economic mess induced by Trump’s Iran war – a crisis so big that the Albanese government is struggling to end the misery

Newcastle Herald

'Newcastle-ite' was sitting right there. Instead, someone reached further back. The result: Novocastrian

Glen Fredericks | We're 'Novocastrians': It's nice, it's different, it's unusual . . . and we love it

Bangkok Post

Culture means more than tourism

The recent proposal to merge the Ministry of Culture with the Ministry of Tourism should be treated with great caution. This idea may appear to be just a bureaucratic restructuring. But the two ministries have distinct missions, functions and skill sets that should not be combined. The Ministry of Culture…

Bangkok Post

Tighten up hub plan

Thailand's ambition to become an Asean semiconductor hub deserves serious attention. The aspiration was unveiled last week when Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced a goal for Thailand to produce semiconductors domestically by 2050. A national committee, known as the "semiconductor board", will drive the development of the semiconductor and advanced…

Bangkok Post

Peace with Iran is all about Lebanon now

The ceasefire that was reportedly just agreed between the United States and Iran reflects US President Donald Trump's desperation to escape the quagmire that he created. Gone is the muddled array of objectives he touted in the war's early days.

Bangkok Post

Comfort women must not be erased

The removal of the comfort women issue from the finalised Senior High School curriculum of the Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines is more than a curricular revision. It signals a negation that diminishes public recognition of wartime sexual survivors and risks narrowing collective historical consciousness within the educational…

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