The car accident involving British former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua in Nigeria made many front pages. The Sun said the boxer was “inches away from death” and was “crying in pain as he was pulled from the wreckage” of the “horror crash”.
The Daily Star’s headline “Nigerian nightmare” says Joshua “miraculously survived a horrific car crash”.
The Daily Mirror is also leading up to Joshua’s accident and reporting that Joshua is in a stable condition in hospital. The newspaper’s front page also includes the King’s New Year Honors list, which says actor Idris Elba will receive a knighthood. “Arise, Sir Idris,” he says.
Lionesses in the UK have “dominated” the New Year Awards, i Paper reports. The newspaper’s headline is “The Pride of England”, listing some of the football stars who will be knighted, including Lioness manager Sarina Wiegman, captain Leah Williamson and team-mates Alex Greenwood, Keira Walsh, Georgia Stanway and Ella Toone.
Downing Street is facing a “furious backlash” over democracy activist Alaa Abd El Fattah being “welcomed back” to the UK, writes the Daily Mail. The reception took place “despite the anger”, the newspaper says [the] Egyptian dissident’s anti-Semitic and anti-British tweets”. The recently announced Egyptian-born British national arrived in the UK on December 26, before some old social media posts and messages in which he called for the killing of Zionists resurfaced. Mr Abd El Fattah apologized, saying he understood “how shocking and hurtful” the posts were.
The Daily Express also leads the backlash to No 10 over Mr Abd El Fattah’s case, writing that Sir Keir Starmer “refuses to deport Egyptian ‘extremist'”. The government announced that it would conduct an investigation into “serious information gaps” regarding the activist’s case.
The Daily Telegraph suggests that Mr Abd El Fattah was engaged in a post on Facebook claiming that he was “a victim of a ‘Zionist campaign'”. The newspaper says the account liked a post that reshared a separate post containing these allegations.
According to the Times, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband plans to introduce a proposal worth “£13bn over the next four years to cut carbon emissions in Britain’s 30 million homes”. The newspaper says labor ministers hope “grants for the installation of solar panels, heat pumps and battery storage” will help reach a point where “zero bill” homes “pay little or no money for energy”.
“US stocks eclipsed by the rest of the world,” read the Financial Times headline, reporting on “a rare year in which Wall Street has underperformed.” The article identifies many reasons for the “distress” of investors in the US; these include “concerns about high valuations, China’s AI push, and Donald Trump’s radical economic policies.”
“Surveys reveal rising ethno-nationalist approach to identity,” reads the Guardian feature story, reporting that the number of people associating “Britishness” with place of birth has almost doubled in two years. “Nearly one in three (36%) think a person must be born in Britain to be truly British,” according to the newspaper, citing a recent survey conducted by the Public Policy Research Institute.
The Independent comes out ahead with its own poll findings suggesting “more than half of British voters want it” [a] New military alliance without America against the threat [Vladimir] While 55 per cent of those polled wanted Britain to enter a new “European defense alliance”, only 11 per cent were against it.
The political controversy surrounding British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah over his social media messages is the focus of many front pages.
both Daily Mail And Daily Express Conservatives and Reform say there has been an angry response from the UK to Downing Street saying Mr Abd El Fattah is still welcome in Britain despite the government describing his posts as “disgusting”.
Guard YouGov polling, conducted for a centre-left think tank, suggests that one in three people think “Britishness” depends on being born in the UK.
According to the newspaper, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research warns that ethno-nationalism is on the rise in Britain.
front pages Daily Mirror And Sun Focus on boxer Anthony Joshua, who was injured in a car crash in Nigeria that killed two members of his team.
The Mirror said he had to be pulled from the rubble, describing it as a “miracle escape”. The Sun describes it as a “horror crash”.
Financial Times The world’s largest accounting body said it has decided to cancel remote exams due to an increase in the number of students cheating in online exams.
The Association of Chartered Certified Public Accountants says the remote exams it introduced during the pandemic have become very difficult to control by police, partly due to fraud using artificial intelligence.
While actor Idris Elba’s knighthood has made most of the headlines, there has been plenty of reaction to the New Year’s Honors list in the newspapers.
Meanwhile front page I He declared England’s Lionesses “dominating” the award following their Euro win in the summer. The headline is “England’s pride”.
