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Rise of the ‘sickfluencers’: Thousands share tips online to trick benefits system, report finds

Think tank Policy Exchange said online coaching will place pressure on benefits system and fuel Britain’s unemployment crisis

Evening Standard

Send provision leaving deprived areas of England ‘trailing behind’, report finds

Ex-education secretaries urge change as data shows special educational needs spending rising fastest in wealthy areas

The Guardian - UK

Starmer considering sending military to Greenland as Trump ratchets up rhetoric

The potential for British troops in the Danish territory comes days after the PM pledged boots on the ground in Ukraine

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Extra defence spending is being lost on MoD’s overdraft, warns former RAF chief

In a damning report for the thinktank Policy Exchange, retired Air Marshall Edward Stringer says increased defence spending is not preventing the UK’s military from shrinking

The Independent UK

Dentists to be paid more to see urgent patients under new reforms for sector

It comes as a report suggests dental vouchers worth £150 a year should be introduced in a bid to ‘end the postcode lottery’ of care.

Evening Standard

Major new dentistry plan vows to ‘end the postcode lottery’ for treatment

The changes are anticipated to benefit millions of patients

The Independent UK

New definition of anti-Muslim hate will lead to two-tier protection – think tank

The Government is currently considering recommendations from a working group on the definition.

Evening Standard

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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10

Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian - UK

Reform say they will axe Northern Powerhouse Rail if they get into power

Mr Tice made his comments in a forward to a report by centre-right think tank Policy Exchange

The Independent UK

UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country

Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate

The Guardian - UK

Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank

The Policy Exchange claims public debate on human rights law reform had been ‘distorted’.

The Independent UK

Protesters target think tank over role in making UK more 'authoritarian'

A Westminster-based think tank has been targeted by protesters over its alleged role in making the UK "increasingly authoritarian"…

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Young people ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental health conditions, Hunt says

Definitions of mental ill health and neurodivergence have been expanded, leading to overwhelm in the system, according to a new report

The Independent UK

Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt

The former health secretary argued that society has ‘lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process’.

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Overdiagnosis of children overlooks that growing up is ‘messy and uneven’, says Jeremy Hunt

Former health secretary wants to see an overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities system in England

Evening Standard

OPINION - I'm a former Detective Chief Inspector. This is what's going wrong at The Met

You must have heard this week’s horrifying new stats by now. Knife attacks in London have risen by 86 per cent in a decade. As a former Detective Chief Inspector at The Met, I am well placed to help explain how we’ve witnessed such a catastrophic increase.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The latest sign of Broken Britain? The mass closure of police stations

The message from the Met’s planned closure of half its police stations is clear: do not try and see the police in the one place where you might think they’d be available, in an actual police station. Just call them instead. And if you are rash enough to be mugged…

Evening Standard

OPINION - When Mayfair is a cesspit of crime, you have to ask is anywhere in this city safe?

The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.

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The Independent UK

Mapped: London’s knife crime hotspots revealed

The West End is the capital’s knife crime hotspot, accounting for one in every 15 knife attacks in London, report says

Evening Standard

Knife crime soars by 86% in London in a decade - with 20 West End streets revealed as the epicentre

Warning of knife crime ‘epidemic’ as offences soar 60% in last three years- as tributes paid to father and son killed in ‘targeted’ attack

The Independent UK

Voices: Is it time to give up on the NHS, our national religion?

COMMENT: The former health secretary Sajid Javid says we should charge £20 for GP appointments and replace the health service with a Dutch-style social insurance system – just as Wes Streeting warns the doctors that they are paving the way for Nigel Farage to do just that, writes John Rentoul

Evening Standard

Overseas students using higher education as ‘backdoor’ to stay in UK – report

The graduate visa route should be scrapped for all students other than those on postgraduate research degrees, think tank says.

Evening Standard

Fact check: How many schools ban mobile phones?

With phones in schools under the spotlight following the Netflix drama Adolescence and an exchange at PMQs, Full Fact looks at what the data tells us.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt hits out at ‘hyperbolic’ Brexit claims of backers like Boris Johnson

Ex-chancellor criticises ‘hyperbolic’ projections as report which claims economic impact of leaving the European Union less than previously thought

The Independent UK

Brexit much less damaging to British exports than claimed, says Hunt

The former chancellor said he believed ‘many claims about the impact of Brexit upon the UK’s economy were exaggerated’.

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