Posted Sunday, November 22 at 11:50 PM CST; Monday, November 23 at 12:50 AM EST, 0550 GMT.

Top stories in Monday morning’s London papers:

1) Andrew Gilligan reports in the Telegraph on leaked documents that reveal hostility between British military commanders in Iraq and their American counterparts. “In the papers, the British chief of staff in Iraq, Colonel J.K.Tanner, described his US military counterparts as ‘a group of Martians’ for whom ‘dialogue is alien,’ saying: ‘Despite our so-called “special relationship,” I reckon we were treated no differently to the Portuguese.’” Col Tanner’s superior, Major General Andrew Stewart, describes his efforts at “evading” and “refusing” orders from the Americans. At one point, Gen Stewart’s actions resulted in the British ambassador to Washington being summoned to the State Department for a diplomatic reprimand.

2) The Times has spoken to an unidentified “defence source” who claims that the Ministry of Defence has spent £149 million on an upgrade to tanks that nevertheless are still useless for protection against mines in Afghanistan. The vehicles will be confined to Canada and Britain. “It seems crazy to do this upgrade work on vehicles that are more than 40 years old and then put them into storage, which is what will happen to most of them,” states the source. “Commanders in Afghanistan have frequently criticised the shortage of suitable armoured vehicles in the country, where 98 British soldiers have been killed this year alone,” the Times observes.

3) Aerospace correspondent Pilita Clark reports for the Financial Times that British Airways CEO Willie Walsh has warned that he will not compromise on costs in the face of a threatened strike action by cabin crew union Unite next month. Mr Walsh describes cost-cutting moves as “vital to the future of BA, now facing its second consecutive year of losses for the first time,” Clark reports. The executive insists that the situation is “very, very different” from that in January 2007, when an agreement with flight attendants was reached at the last minute.

4) Education editor Polly Curtis reports for the Guardian that schools inspection agency Ofsted will come under criticism this week from a number of sources that accuse it of being “flawed, wasteful and failing.” “The children’s services inspectorate will be criticised today by service heads in every local authority in the country, headteachers’ leaders and in a damning forthcoming report by MPs on the government’s school accountability system.” Among other things, the agency is accused of pettiness with regard to such matters as “giving good schools mediocre ratings on routine technical matters – such as fences not being high enough.” Former chief inspector at the agency, Sir Mike Tomlinson, told the paper: “Inspection systems that rely too heavily on data and tick-box systems is not what we need.”