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The Latest Breaking News from Tony Benn

All the warnings in the world couldn’t stop the Iraq war, or Tony Blair

Looking back after 20 years, I recall how an unswerving PM bullied MPs to get their votes and ignored cool heads, says the Labour MP Diane Abbott

The Guardian - UK

What it was like watching Westminster get rich from Scotland’s oil

IN the 1970s, the discovery of oil changed the landscape of Scottish politics ...

The National (Scotland)

Sir Bernard Ingham obituary

Rumbustious Downing Street chief press secretary who was central to the style and success of the Thatcher revolution

The Guardian - UK

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Jim Ford obituary

Other lives: Coal miner in Shropshire who supported his colleagues through the strike of 1984-85

The Guardian - UK

The Snuts: ‘I’ve got friends who are gonna have their gas cut off, no money in the bank...’

Scottish four-piece The Snuts topped the UK charts with their personal, coming-of-age debut, ‘WL’. Frontman Jack Cochrane tells Roisin O’Connor about taking inspiration from Tony Benn for their political follow-up, ‘Burn the Empire’, and why they didn’t want to become ‘another generic indie band’

The Independent UK

'My 50th year at the Labour conference - and for my sins I will be back again'

This is the beating heart of honest, awkward, idealistic, funny, cynical, romantic British politics, writes Paul Routledge as he recalls half a century of long speeches, block votes and late nights drinking

Daily Mirror

Letter: Judith Durham obituary

Shelley Bovey writes: Tony Benn and Judith drank tea and signed each other’s books

The Guardian - UK

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Like Thatcher, Truss wants radical change – but could she avoid a crisis?

Whether she or Rishi Sunak becomes prime minister, challenge looks as daunting as it did for James Callaghan in 1976

The Guardian - UK

‘Eventually it will just be a barcode, won’t it?’ Why Britain’s new stamps are causing outrage and upset

Royal Mail’s stamps are finally entering the digital world, with printed codes that can be used to track letters or linked to videos. Collectors, traditionalists and royalists are not amused

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cummings is the gift who keeps giving

There are two takes on politics. One, espoused by the late Tony Benn, is that it’s the issues that matter. And then there are the rest of us who think that the issues are of course terribly important but it’s the personalities that count. And for us, Dominic Cummings is…

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