Thatcher’s the pits but
Keir Starmer is enjoying with fireplace issuing calculated reward for Margaret Thatcher in a bid to woo Tory voters.
Whether any shall be satisfied by plaudits from a Labour chief for a right-wing prime minister ousted 33 years in the past stays to be seen, points resembling the price of residing disaster and dire state of the NHS most likely mattering extra to most Conservatives right this moment.
Thatcher stays a divisive determine for a lot of Labour supporters within the celebration’s heartlands, disliked and resented by those that lived by means of her harsh reign within the Eighties and important of the greed-is-good tradition she fanned.
For them, Thatcher’s “meaningful change” and “sense of mission” was misplaced jobs, poverty and savage Tory economics that threw them on the scrapheap. She wasn’t a PM these voters regarded as much as or revered; she was one they’ll by no means forgive for sweeping them apart.
Stop the killing
A restarting of combating between Israel and Hamas in Gaza should not be accompanied by a resumption within the slaughter of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, together with ladies and kids.
US and worldwide stress to minimise casualties is mounting amid widespread concern at innocents dying in large numbers as Israel bombards a territory the place an estimated 1.8million of the two.3million inhabitants are believed to have fled their properties.
The October 7 pogrom by Hamas terrorists in Israel was a barbaric slaughter however Palestinian lives matter too and Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities could be making a mistake if it took worldwide assist with no consideration.
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RIP, Glenys
Proud democratic socialist, senior Labour politician, beloved spouse, mom and grandmother – Glenys Kinnock was all these issues and a lot extra.
The ex-MEP, who died peacefully in her sleep aged 79, is mourned by her household and lots of others who appreciated a really particular girl with a coronary heart as huge as her political abilities.