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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

'Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq is a warning to Keir Starmer on defence spending'

The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party

Daily Mirror

Philip Ziegler obituary

Diplomat and historian who wrote magisterial biographies of Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten and Edward Heath

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the 'government-in-waiting'

Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls.

The Conversation

Pulled! A timeline of TV taken off air

Move over Match of the Day … here’s a look at the most contentious shows that have had to be cancelled, featuring giant pickled penises, melting eyeballs – and footage Thatcher forced the police to seize

The Guardian - UK

Silicon Valley Bank: how interest rates helped trigger its collapse and what central bankers should do next

A former prime minister of Britain, Harold Wilson, is famous for remarking that a week is a long time in politics. But in the world of finance, it seems everything can change in just two days.

The Conversation

Battered by Brexit, alarmed by poverty, the City is finding a new sense of purpose

The finance sector is at last setting its sights on reviving UK business

The Guardian - UK

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Cabinet Office faced criminal probe over blocked Spycatcher documents

Freedom of information watchdog’s investigation team called in after UK officials repeatedly refused access to government files

The Guardian - UK

The Catch — Acorn release date, episode guide, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the thriller

The Catch is a thriller starring Jason Watkins, Poppy Gilbert, Aneurin Barnard and Brenda Fricker.

WhatToWatch

Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs

The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed

The Guardian - UK

Royal commissions transformed Britain in the 1960s – we desperately need them now

These independent inquiries would rise above the party-political deadlock over reform for the NHS and housing, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Future of Welsh rugby at stake after misogyny allegations

When Prime Minister Harold Wilson said “a week is a long time in politics”, it’s unlikely that many thought Welsh rugby would one day be the subject of this truism. But a BBC Wales investigative documentary has exposed a “toxic culture” within the sport’s governing body, the Welsh Rugby Union…

The Conversation

Under construction in Newcastle 60 years ago - the former home of the Chronicle

For over 50 years, million of copies of the Chronicle, Journal and Sunday Sun were produced at ncjMedia's former offices in Newcastle's Groat Market

Chronicle Live

Declaring my own gender made me the woman I am today

Being issued with a gender recognition certificate in Ireland has given me my dignity. It is a lifeline

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Hunt became chancellor after a Tory tax calamity. History suggests he’s doomed

Like Roy Jenkins and Kenneth Clarke before him, he can do little but tackle a crisis bequeathed to him by Conservative folly

The Guardian - UK

Wilson won after 13 wasted Tory years. Starmer can do exactly the same

The Labour front bench was highly visible in Davos, while Sunak didn’t even attend. One senses that the guard is changing

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson allies plotting against Sunak risk a 1997-style Tory defeat, former Brexit secretary warns

Former Tory minister David Davis says ordinary voters will not support the Conservatives if Boris Johnson and his acolytes ‘actively undermine’ the prime minister in the run up to the next election

Daily Mirror

'Senior Labour figures right to be haunted by fear of Conservative resurrection'

The economy crash, the NHS crisis, Covid and the invasion of Ukraine don’t explain why we’re doing worse than similar nations, so Rishi Sunak will struggle to escape the grave

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The Independent UK

Plot to restore Boris Johnson as prime minister splits warring Tories

Rival camps fall out over the best way to restore Johnson to power but are working ‘to keep the flame alive’

The Guardian - UK

Paul Johnson obituary

Prolific journalist and historian who shifted allegiance from the left of Labour to become an ardent Thatcher supporter

Daily Mirror

Mirror photographer Tom Buist dies at 84 after remarkable career starting aged just 14

The Edinburgh native joined the Mirror in 1965 and his reputation swiftly grew after his coverage of the Troubles in Ireland earned him a World Press Awards nod

The Independent UK

What is colon cancer? ‘Silent killer’ that afflicted Kirstie Alley and Pele

Second-deadliest form of cancer in UK can sometimes develop without symptoms

The Independent UK

What is colon cancer? ‘Silent killer’ that afflicted Kirstie Alley and Pele

Second-deadliest form of cancer in UK can sometimes develop without symptoms

Daily Mirror

Horrified wife of Stonehouse drama MP says show a 'vicious attack' on her family

ITV last week aired a three-part drama about John Stonehouse MP, who attempted and failed to fake his own death following a mental breakdown

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson ally Lord Stephen Greenhalgh predicts former PM will return to Number 10 this year

Talk of a return for Boris Johnson comes as Rishi Sunak was set to make his first major intervention of the new year in a speech in London

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