The Guardian view on the National Year of Reading 2026: time to start a healthy habit for life | Editorial

Reading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants to encourage everyone to do it more. To this end, next year has been decreed the National Year of Reading 2026. It couldn’t be more timely. Reading is in crisis. Picking up…

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Starmer’s backers never meant him to be prime minister – his leadership was doomed from the start | Neal Lawson

Wes Streeting was always meant to be their Labour prime minister. The plan, hatched by a tiny clique of rightwing faction fighters, was this: find a candidate on whom they could fake a continuation Corbynism project to win the leadership. Then kick the ladder away from the people who backed them and the promises they…

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