18 h. ago Badenoch claims ‘Britain is not broken’ in rebuke to Jenrick after Reform defection

Jenrick was sacked by the Conservative leader this week hours before he defected to Nigel Farage’s party

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27 h. ago RICHARD EDEN: Broken Little Britain... Is Matt Lucas the latest to ditch disgraced David Walliams?

I ask because Lucas declines my invitation to come to the support of Walliams, and their joint podcast, Making A Scene, has not been broadcast for three months.

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30 h. ago Badenoch insists ‘Britain is not broken’ in rebuke of defector Jenrick

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is attempting to offer a more positive message from the political right than her one-time shadow justice secretary.

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2 d. ago The world of today looks bad, but take hope: we’ve been here before and got through it – and we will again | Martin Kettle

As I write my last regular column for the Guardian, my thoughts turn to the lessons and hope we can take from historyFrom Greenland’s icy mountains, from India’s coral strand, as the old hymn has it, we seem to inhabit a world that is more seriously troubled in more places than many can ever remember. In the UK, national morale feels all but shot. Politics commands little faith. Ditto the media. The idea that, as a country, we still have enough in common to carry us through – the idea embedded in Britain’s once potent Churchillian myth – feels increasingly threadbare.Welcome, in short, to the Britain of the mid-1980s. That Britain often felt like a broken nation in a broken world, very much as Britain often does in the mid-2020s. The breakages were of course very different. And on one important level, misery is the river of the world. But, for those who can still recall them, the 1980s moods of crisis and uncertainty have things in common with those of today.Martin Kettle is a Guard...

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6 d. ago The high street that holds the recipe for success to broken Britain

As high streets crumble under the rise of online shopping, unsustainable business rates and Labour's Budget, Petworth has not only survived but continues to thrive.

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3 w. ago 'Ghost plate' cowboys exposed: Number plates invisible to speed cameras sold by official DVLA

Britain's broken number plate system is today laid bare by a Daily Mail investigation which found official suppliers selling plates invisible to road cameras.

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