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Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe praises Elon Musk’s “highly principled” intervention in the debate around policing after the murder of Henry Nowak.

He says Musk agrees with him that “we need to sort out the wokery, the DEI, and all the other malign philosophies” in Britain.

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Streeting, Burnham.... or Pienaar for PM?

Political historian Sir Anthon Seldon sets out the qualities he believes a future prime minister needs, and Times Radio's very own fits the bill.

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Andy Burnham’s desire to loosen whipping will mean “yielding to the party on things like welfare” warns @Dannythefink.

“I can't believe he would end up being able to stay on that.”

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Elon Musk's AI bot Grok, "invaded my privacy" and "misused my information", says Labour MP Jess Asato as she takes the owner of X to the High Court.

"My view is that if you create a product that doesn't have the right safeguards and that leads to harm then there should always be a legal recourse."

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Can Nigel Farage "keep his nerve" against the challenge from Restore Britain?

For the first time, @Dannythefink wonders if Nigel Farage is feeling pressure from the right.

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Reed chief executive James Reed says the high cost of hiring young people is to blame for plummeting entry level jobs.

"The cost of hiring a 21 year-old 40 hours a week in 2016 was £15,333, now it would cost the same employer £29,654 so it has gone up 93%"

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Jewish patients feel inhibited to declare their religion and subsequent dietary requirements to hospitals after antisemitic rhetoric online, says Professor David R Katz.

The former chair of the Jewish Medical Association reacts to Lord Mann’s findings on antisemitism in the NHS.

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Where should we draw the line with differential treatment?

The Times has revealed that many public bodies have guidelines advising staff to treat people from certain backgrounds differently, as arguments intensify following Henry Nowak’s murder.

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The UK must step up to the mark in defence as we’re “bumping along the bottom of Nato”, says former deputy supreme allied commander of Nato General Sir Richard Shirreff.

“We are going to look really, really stupid if this thing is not taken through properly.”

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Darren Jones' potential leadership bid is 'stalled in the traps' after his Whatsapp messages to Peter Mandelson were leaked to the Spectator's Political Editor Tim Shipman.

"Rachel Reeves would be surprised that he was being disparaging about her, while he was her deputy at the Treasury."

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Some of the language in police guidance may well be “clumsy”, says chief secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby following the murder of Henry Nowak.

“The law needs to apply equally to everyone.”

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Kate McCann and Stig Abell react to policing minister Sarah Jones “not wanting to engage” on whether there has been an “over-correction” in policing guidance.

“It’s not as simple as saying you should treat everybody the same.”

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Reform UK’s ex-deputy leader Ben Habib tears into his former colleague, Nigel Farage.

Farage is “a fox, not a lion”, he says, “and that makes him dangerous for the country as a prime minister.”

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Nigel Farage says anti-racist policing reforms have gone too far, and many will feel the same "cold rage" he does.

"What you saw in Southampton last night is the beginning…the division will get far worse.”

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Rod Liddle explains why the popularity of Restore Britain in Makerfield should seriously worry Reform.

He says Reform are "easily defeated" if they can't "hold the line" across the right-wing vote.

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“It's Burnham or bust.”
Anna Mikhailova has been taking the temperature in Westminster.
An MP told her that Andy Burnham losing the Makerfield by-election would be “the absolute worst case scenario”.
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"It's not the problem of the individual."

Digital wellbeing shouldn't be treated as an individual failure when technology is designed to keep people scrolling and engaged, says the University of Cambridge's @DrEleanorDrage.

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“Bobbies on the beat are not always able to exercise every bit of their brain.”

Former Conservative minister @Edwina_Currie says while police officers responding to the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak “behaved atrociously”, they were also following orders.