- “Jimmy Carter dead at 100: Former president passes away in Georgia” – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100, almost two years after announcing he would spend his final days in hospice care, reports the Mail.
- “South Korea airport crash: Jeju Air plane smashes through wall, killing 179 people” – A passenger plane crashed while landing at an airport in South Korea yesterday, killing all but two of the 181 people on board, says the Telegraph.
- “Bird strike ‘would not have crippled landing gear of doomed Jeju jet’” – The twin-engine Boeing 737-800 carrying 181 people is believed to have encountered a flock of birds as it came in to land at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning. But experts query whether that was the cause of the crash, according to the Mail.
- “Labour is gaslighting the public to hide its economic failings” – Playing fast and loose with the facts has eroded trust in the Government’s vision for the country, writes Julian Jessop in the Telegraph.
- “Labour or Liz? The taxing question that could come back to haunt Sir Keir Starmer” – Can you be pro-growth while raising taxes? Can you cut regulation but still protect workers and the environment? Or put more simply, can you be both Labour and Liz? Sky News political correspondent Rob Powell puzzles over Labour’s plans for growth.
- “Starmer has an obvious scapegoat for Britain’s deepening economic woes” – If the Prime Minister is looking for someone to blame for the economy’s failure to launch under Labour, there is one obvious candidate: step forward Rachel Reeves, says Roger Bootle in the Telegraph.
- “Britain and the Chagos, the seven-year mess that’ll cost us all” – Diplomatic dithering under both Conservative and Labour governments means the taxpayer’s final bill for handing the islands to Mauritius remains a mystery, reports the Sunday Times.
- “Poor maths skills to blame for Britain’s benefits crisis, says Santander boss” – Bank chief claims lack of financial literacy is fuelling spiralling worklessness in U.K., according to the Telegraph.
- “Farmers plot supermarket blockade in New Year” – Farmers are plotting a New Year supermarket blockade to ramp up protests over the Government’s inheritance tax raid, says the Telegraph.
- “Government accused of ‘bullying’ to get pylons built under Ed Miliband’s Net Zero drive” – The Energy Secretary has vowed to take on “the blockers” as resistance to Milliband’s Net Zero masts grows across the U.K., reports the Telegraph.
- “Why councils are about to switch off your street lights” – Local authorities are trying to plug holes in their budgets while meeting carbon footprint targets. But will their plans put people at risk? asks the Telegraph.
- “Pro-Palestine group whose director is accused of Hamas links hosted in Parliament” – A pro-Palestinian campaign group was hosted in Parliament despite the fact that the organisation’s director has been accused of being “one of the senior Hamas members in Europe”, according to the Telegraph.
- “We must shake off the progressive habit of national self-flagellation” – This country is not responsible for all the ills of the world, and people should stop saying it is, writes Nick Timothy in the Telegraph.
- “We will not comply” – Il Donaldo Trumpo has posted a clip of Donald Trump announcing he will cut federal funding from any institution that imposes mask mandates or vaccine mandates when he’s President.
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