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Politics Independent 11/09/2024 06:35:50 AM How exactly is Labour planning to reform the House of Lords? Boris Johnson firm gives youngest peer Charlotte Owen top job Charlotte Owen: All we know as Boris employs the UK’s youngest peer Green co-leader opens party conference with attack on Labour U-turns Germany considering Rwanda deportation scheme using UK facilities Labour refuses to rule out sending prisoners to Estonia - live Greens keen to build on election gains – but less so on pylons Labour scraps Tory plan to hold asylum seekers on RAF site Baroness Owen to introduce law change aimed at criminalising deepfake creation Every person to be urged to cut their water consumption by a fifth Last hereditary peers to be kicked out of House of Lords in months Greens co-leader denies being hypocrite for opposing wind farm pylons Grenfell campaigners criticise MPs leaving before Starmer statement Nadine Dorries ramps up war on Tory Party with new book Downfall Angela Rayner backs Right to Buy policy but promises reform Germany considering Rwanda deportations using UK facilities after Labour ditched plan Johnson firm gives Charlotte Owen top job after ex-PM made her UK’s youngest peer Water bosses could face prison time over dumping sewage into rivers Union boss rages over betrayal of heroic Grenfell fire fighters Back Starmer’s Brexit deal to help save the UK car industry: TUC boss Who will be the next Conservative leader? The Tory frontrunners Seven in 10 children exposed to harmful content online – research Dame Priti is out – so what now in the Tory leadership race? Who will be the next Conservative leader? The Tory frontrunners Seven in 10 children exposed to harmful content online – research Dame Priti is out – so what now in the Tory leadership race? ‘We must all acknowledge the part we played’, says May on Grenfell Jenrick wins first round of voting to be next Tory leader Labour piles £15m into deportation deals for small boat migrants Angela Rayner could end Right to Buy under which she bought her house Backlash after Nadhim Zahawi tweets picture of homeless man in Mayfair Live: First Tory leadership vote held to choose Sunak’s successor Sixty days of Starmer: How has the Labour leader done? Starmer repeatedly refers to Sunak as ‘prime minister’ at PMQs Starmer faces PMQs and delivers statement on damning Grenfell report EU chief says she's pushing full steam ahead for gender parity in EU's executive office Rail nationalisation a step closer under Starmer’s first major reform Starmer feels heat from US and Israel over partial arms ban Civil service chief on Labour’s £22bn ‘black hole’ – who is right? Keir Starmer faces growing Labour backlash over winter fuel cuts Boris Johnson says Starmer ‘wants Hamas to win’ in Israel war Tugendhat doubles down on bid to win over Tory right with ECHR attack Watch: Chancellor Rachel Reeves questioned on Budget by MPs Watch: Tom Tugendhat launches Tory Party leadership campaign Starmer gets new kitten to join Larry the cat in Downing Street Cabinet Secretary backs Labour in ‘Tory £22bn black hole’ row Watch: Keir Starmer’s cabinet arrive at No 10 ahead of budget grilling Starmer under pressure as school becomes first to ban smartphones Jenrick doubles down on plan to leave human rights convention UK to suspend 30 export for arms licences to Israel, Lammy announces

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The Spectator 11/09/2024 06:35:51 AM Marine Le Pen is crucial to Michel Barnier’s survival Ian McKellen’s comments about the Queen are a step too far ‘Paddy-bashing’ and the blind spot of progressives Could Germany resurrect Britain’s Rwanda migrant scheme? Bring back the briefcase! The spy with the bullet-proof Rolls-Royce We’ll never know what treasures the Tudor Reformation robbed us of A tip for my favourite flat handicap of the season From Spectator Life Mickleover: the real home of cricket The no-bake bliss of icebox cake Bring back the briefcase! The spy with the bullet-proof Rolls-Royce We’ll never know what treasures the Tudor Reformation robbed us of A tip for my favourite flat handicap of the season From Spectator Life Mickleover: the real home of cricket The no-bake bliss of icebox cake Which schools get the most pupils into Oxbridge? Inside Zelensky’s not-so-fresh reshuffle Veterans’ champion quits with blast at Starmer Expanding the sugar tax won’t save any lives Top Labour donor in ‘operation integrity’ storm How select committees could cause trouble for Keir Starmer BBC bias on Israel set to be probed Watch: Miliband blasted over energy bill ‘false promises’ A dispatch from Ukraine’s Pokrovsk: Heartbreak at the station Labour’s term-time holiday crackdown won’t work Ian McKellen’s comments about the Queen are a step too far What prompted Vivien Leigh’s dark journey into madness? Which schools get the most pupils into Oxbridge? What happened to pride in our nation? Marine Le Pen is crucial to Michel Barnier’s survival Why France blames Britain for the Channel migrant crisis Night czar’s City Hall no-show What happened to pride in our nation? No one will change their mind about Hamas Why is no one marching against VAT on school fees? The real threat to schools? Falling birth rates From Spectator Life Why state schools need old boys’ clubs too From Spectator Life Religious schools will be hit hardest by Labour’s VAT tax raid From Spectator Life The rise of the state-private pupil From Spectator Life A tip for my favourite flat handicap of the season From Spectator Life Labour should work with schools, not tax them out of existence From Spectator Life Keir Starmer is blind to the brilliance of private schools From Spectator Life Miliband’s empty energy promise Though not quite up there with historys great political texts, Ed Milibands letter this week to the director of the ESO, which runs Britains national grid, is a rather important document. It reveals or confirms that Labour has committed itself to decarbonising Britains electricity system by 2030 without really having any idea of The deep sorrow of losing a sibling Inside an MP’s inbox The expensive business of quoting poetry Xi speech warrior: Elon Musk’s love affair with China We’ll never know what treasures the Tudor Reformation robbed us of Uncomfortable truths about the siege of Leningrad A world history of morality is maddeningly optimistic The spy with the bullet-proof Rolls-Royce Never pour scorn on Croydon More about my mother: Elaine, by Will Self, reviewed A necklace for the Empress Josephine: The Glassmaker, by Tracy Chevalier, reviewed What the Cass Review means for schools From Spectator Life

New Statesman 11/09/2024 06:35:50 AM The transformation of JD Vance Donald Trump’s running mate has brought the new right to the brink of power. Labour must give the land back to the people Paul Nowak: “We need to see public-sector pay restored” Why the House of Lords will be hard to abolish The SNP’s reign is ending with a whimper AI will never understand what makes writing great The Grenfell report is damning for David Cameron The Harris campaign is stalling Grenfell inquiry: failure on an industrial scale Labour’s battle for Britain Donald Trump’s identity crisis How the former president’s campaign abandoned its populist roots. By Sohrab Ahmari How motherhood was weaponised Vladimir Putin’s enemy within How Telegram fosters online extremism The BBC has finally grasped how to manage a scandal How America resembles the dying Soviet Union Keir Starmer must tell a better story Labour’s battle for Britain After a brutal summer, the government is already disliked. Can Keir Starmer reassert the authority of the state? With Priti Patel gone, Robert Jenrick emerges as the champion of the Tory right Why Labour acted on arms to Israel Rachel Reeves’s critics are in denial Keir Starmer’s big idea: the preventative state The Conservative Party has forgotten its own history Is growth really Labour’s priority? Is the Ukrainian invasion of Russia a turning point in the war? How the far right mobilised the new Germany What it means to be Palestinian The neoliberal battle for Ukraine’s reconstruction  The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh might make no difference The Ukrainian endgame What a surgeon saw in Gaza Is Jeremy Corbyn trolling Keir Starmer? The Grenfell report is damning. Prosecutions must follow. Can Oasis bring back Cool Britannia? “Things will get worse”: is austerity back? What is Starmer’s story? The rise of disaster nationalism Can Kamala Harris end America’s interregnum? Britain’s new Powellites The shot seen round the world Slavoj Žižek’s war with the left Janet Frame’s asylum dreams The New Zealand author, born 100 years ago, was both tormented and inspired by her experience of mental illness. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger Why we resurrected Oasis Why Sherwood matters The Sabrina Carpenter effect Steven Bartlett’s empire of bluff James Baldwin in a time of riots The Queen’s greatest act How Nvidia broke the market Japan has rebounded but global markets are on edge The QE theory of everything Labour’s inheritance is truly grim France’s Liz Truss moment is yet to come – and it may be worse Pret a Manger’s “free coffee” was never going to last Why critical materials could make or break Labour’s climate plans Why do big digital projects in the public sector fail? The NHS’s digital problem: how old infrastructure is slowing down healthcare services Carla Denyer: Greens will pressure Labour from the left From Berlin to Vienna and Barcelona: how could European housing policies influence the UK? The case for a state-owned energy sector Labour’s battle for Britain The transformation of JD Vance The race for Lambeth Palace Van Gogh in the yellow house An innovative approach to regional equity Peatlands are nature’s unsung climate warriors Harnessing Europe’s green power plant Reshaping the gig economy: union representation and worker protections – with Uber