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OPINION - The Standard View: We must protect the freedoms secured on the beaches of Normandy

It remains, to this day, the largest amphibious invasion in history. Troops from Britain, the United States, the Commonwealth and our allies landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate France and ultimately defeat Nazi forces in Europe.

Evening Standard

In the UK's top baseball league, crowds are small, babysitters are key and the Mets are a dynasty

Baseball at the highest club level in Britain is competitive but it’s a league in which babysitters are just as important as balls and strikes

The Independent UK

How exposed is Red Bull’s F1 campaign to its kerb and bump weakness?

After the challenges of Miami, Imola and Monaco where the clear weakness of the RB20 in dealing with bumps and kerbs was made evident, it is little wonder that the world champion has spent time in Red Bull's simulator since the last race trying to work through things ahead of…

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Keir Starmer sees jump in voters saying Labour ready for Government as he leads Sunak as 'best PM', new poll

Exclusive Ipsos survey for The Standard gives Labour a 20-point lead over the Tories

Evening Standard

The Federal Union: how a group of 1940s economists dreamt of a European Union for the working classes

On the eve of the Second World War, three Oxbridge graduates joined forces in London and wrote a pamphlet calling for the union of Britain with other democracies to avert the coming conflict. They sent the short pamphlet, titled “Federal Union”, to more than 500 opinion-makers in Britain. The warm…

The Conversation

Can Labour’s GB Energy plan future-proof UK’s power generation sector?

Party has put state-owned power company at centre of its plans for decarbonisation, security and energy bills

The Guardian - UK

‘Only disconnect’ – in Caledonian Road, Andrew O'Hagan depicts Britain’s great unravelling

It is Thursday May 20, 2021, and Campbell Flynn – “tall and sharp at fifty-two […] a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished” – makes his way along Piccadilly to sign copies of…

The Conversation

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Britain’s Most Eligible Bachelor Gets Married Friday—Who Is Hugh Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster?

The richest person in the U.K. under age 35 will marry Olivia Henson in “the society wedding of the decade” on June 7.

Marie Claire

Greece is buoyed by a Turkish official's comments about Parthenon sculptures taken by Britain

Greece’s culture minister says the comments made by a Turkish official at a UNESCO meeting last week, casting doubt on the existence of proof long cited by Britain that it had legally acquired the Parthenon Marbles, have bolstered Athens' stand in the dispute

The Independent UK

Why is Britain turning into the under-40s diabetes capital of the world?

Education about the risks of being overweight means nothing if people have no access to healthy food or places to exercise, says global public health expert Devi Sridhar

The Guardian - UK

Duke of Westminster's wedding: No Harry and Meghan? Inside the most glamorous society event of the year

He is Britain’s richest man under forty and she is an enigma. Alice Cockerell reports on Friday’s highly secretive high society wedding

Evening Standard

Lizzie Deignan faces rival Kopecky in reborn women’s Tour of Britain

Former world champion leads home hopes as four-day event starts in Wales after a ‘monumental effort’ to secure its future

The Guardian - UK

Martin Lewis pushes Cabinet minister Claire Coutinho to apologise on live TV for Labour £2,000 tax hike claim

The Money Saving Expert challenged the Energy Security Secretary about the Tory tax allegation when she appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain

Evening Standard

Mike Lynch: four key takeaways from the fraud trial of ‘Britain’s Bill Gates’

Prosecutors called Lynch the ‘driving force’ behind Autonomy’s missteps as the tycoon tried to humanize himself on the stand

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I’ll vote Labour, but it angers me that the party could take diversity lessons from the Tories

With Starmer’s election chances so high, would it really hurt to show more sympathy to the migrants who help this country to thrive, asks science writer Angela Saini

France 24

Sunak and Starmer clash in fiery first debate of UK general election

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer sparred Tuesday over tax, the cost of living and the country’s creaking health system in an inconclusive televised debate ahead of a July 4 election expected to make one of them the country's next leader.

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage, the man who wants to be the UK’s answer to Donald Trump

Populist politician who formed anti-EU pact with ruling Conservatives is back to engineer party’s demise

The Independent UK

Sunak and Starmer prepare for their first debate as disruptor Farage roils UK election waters

The two main contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister are set to face off in a televised debate

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Bravery and bagpipes: How British flair was crucial to D-Day's success

On June 6, 1944, three countries sent the bulk of their troops to land in Normandy: the United States, Britain and Canada. In this report, FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin and Florence Gaillard look at how the British forces, who had already endured five years of war before D-Day, showed bravery…

The Independent UK

Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later

World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler’s defeat

The Guardian - UK

I’ll welcome a Labour victory and a brighter future, but Britain deserves a better election than this

This is a contest in keeping with our political times. Too little genuine debate, too many key issues barely discussed at all, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

‘People were ready to move on’: D-day left little mark on key port of Southampton

‘Disparate’ 80th anniversary efforts reflect those around UK, where only in recent times have calls for memorials increased

The Guardian - UK

Starmer has mastered the speeches about Tory ‘chaos’ and ‘decline’, but Britain needs hope – where is it?

The Labour leader needs to say what is wrong with the country, but people need to know how he will make things better, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: These summer migrants are remarkable – and humbling

Moccas, Herefordshire: Pied flycatchers fly more than 13,000km from west Africa, up through Spain and on to Britain, and as far as Russia every summer

International Business Times

Japan's Emperor And Empress To Pay Three-day State Visit To UK

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Britain at the end of June, spending three days as guests of King Charles III, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Tuesday.

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