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Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain

Prices and rents will fall under Rachel Reeves’ plans, enabling a younger generation with new ideas to enter the field

The Guardian - UK

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2024: What time will tax-raising Budget speech by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves start on Wednesday?

And how long will it be?

Evening Standard

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Commonwealth slavery reparations debate: What could the UK be asked to pay?

Reparations is expected to be a key talking point in Samoa

The Independent UK

A delicious history of the apple – from the Tian Sian mountains to supermarket shelves

Reading labels in the supermarket, you may have wondered where your apples come from – but have you ever thought about why you’re eating apples in the first place? Author Sally Coulthard’s new book gives you the answer to this question – and to many more you’d never thought to…

The Conversation

‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer was once my apprentice – and this is how I think he might fare as prime minister

He is not offering great reform, but his Wilson-like workaholism and Attlee-like seriousness are what we need now, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

The Guardian - UK

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The history of carpetbaggers and their Scottish opponents

CANDIDATES parachuted into Scottish constituencies where they have no local connection has been an issue in this election – but the phenomenon is…

The National (Scotland)

Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

Sir Keir’s team will inherit a poisoned chalice from the Tories, but progress needn’t depend on the state opening its wallet

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: John Lewis selling vibrators – is nothing safe from All That?

After a week in introvert’s heaven at William Gladstone’s Library, the modern world in all its awfulness floods back

The Guardian - UK

Hawarden Castle: Inside the new West End residence at William Gladstone's one-of-a-kind home

Kate Lough is one of the first guests to stay in The West End at Hawarden Castle, the latest project from the creative Gladstone family

Evening Standard

Britain risks being ‘left in the cold’ by ignoring demands for slavery reparations, MP warns

Exclusive: Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the cross-party group on reparations, said UK had a ‘moral duty’ to face up to the past as campaigners gather in London this weekend

The Independent UK

Grenada prime minister calls on Britain to pay slavery reparations: ‘It’s the decent thing to do’

Exclusive: If the UK wants to be a country that demonstrates values of justice, then it should say sorry for its mass enslavement of African people, Dickon Mitchell tells The Independent

The Independent UK

Guyana’s president asks European slave traders’ descendants to pay reparations

Irfaan Ali also demands posthumous charges for crimes against humanity for traders and enslavers

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Evening Standard

Family of former PM William Gladstone to apologise for links to the slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

The Independent UK

William Gladstone’s descendants to apologise for family’s part in slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Guardian - UK

How William Gladstone defended his father’s role in slavery

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates

The Guardian - UK

William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slavery

Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans

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Wales Online

Two big murals painted in Barry

London-based artist Grant Radford painted the murals at Gladstone Gardens in Barry

The Guardian - UK

Charles, show us you’re truly a modern king and return the remains of the stolen prince

There can be no more excuses for refusing to return Alemayehu to his native Ethiopia

Evening Standard

I spy a renovation opportunity: blank canvas flat in former MI6 headquarters goes on the market for £4.85 million

Residents of Whitehall Court have included former Prime Minister William Gladstone and the spy chief that inspired a James Bond icon

The Guardian - UK

Descendants of UK slave owners call on government to apologise

Heirs of Slavery body wants restorative justice to tackle ‘ongoing consequences of this crime against humanity’

The Guardian - UK

Is it a campsite? Is it a festival? This Welsh ‘summer camp’ feels like the best of both

On Gladstone’s former estate in Flintshire, this small-scale family event combines crafts, music, great food and a relaxed vibe

The Guardian - UK

From book butlers to library sleepovers: 10 great UK places to stay for book lovers

To celebrate World Book Day we’ve picked 10 lovely literary retreats for bookworms

The Guardian - UK

Get Matt Hancock out of here: these are the political diaries worth reading

For windows on the corridors of power that were actually written contemporaneously, read this selection of books by MPs from left and right

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