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Treasury gamble on households using savings to survive cost of living crisis

Ian Fleming’s lost James Bond screenplay reveals a very different 007. With no Moneypenny and no M, a previously unpublished script reveals the author’s original ideas for Moonraker

Our lovely country

British armoured ambulances being used in Ukraine.

Insulate Britain protesters glue themselves to furniture during court hearing

Michael Fabricant sorry for saying teachers and nurses had lockdown drinks | Conservatives

The sound you can hear is the dying groans of a clapped-out government | Keir Starmer

Last month saw GPs deliver the highest number of consultations on record

Chancellor breaks pledge on energy bills

Has the penny finally dropped for the government on the cost of living crisis? If they don’t act quickly, the Tories will face the same fate as Labour in 2010 and lose their credibility on the economy

The NHS is in seriously poor shape

HSBC's top shareholder calls for banking giant's break-up - source

Tory minister says male MP pinned her against wall and told her she ‘wants him’

More than 27,000 chickens boiled alive after computer error at poultry farm

UK to impose direct rule over British Virgin Islands after inquiry finds rampant corruption | British Virgin Islands | The Guardian

Police insist no investigation of Sir Keir Starmer over lockdown breach claims

Bristol woman guilty of rioting at Kill the Bill protest

Tory MP who wants police to probe Keir Starmer's work pizza had work curry in same week

UK healthcare is already being privatised, but not in the way you think

UK ports consider legal action after Rees-Mogg delays Brexit controls

Ukraine conflict: British man Scott Sibley killed

Homes and offices raided by police in secret PPE fraud probe

Private e-scooters could soon be made road legal, Grant Shapps suggests

Katie Kenyon: Man charged with murdering missing woman

Tory councillors disciplined for ‘hate’ directed at Jewish Labour candidate

Sunak escapes with job after being cleared of ethics breaches over wife’s non-dom status

UK on verge of food security concerns 'not seen since WWII'

Glue traps set to be banned in the UK

Government Stalling on Releasing Boris Johnson WhatsApp Messages

Brexit: Deep decline in EU to UK trade as imports plunge by 25 per cent

Three teenage boys left care worker, 46, unable to walk or talk after turning on him 'with pack mentality' when he stepped in to help crying boy, 11, they were bullying in park, court hears

Police who handcuffed Bianca Williams to face gross misconduct charge - Police conduct panel finds case to answer against officers who searched British sprinter in front of her baby

Why are so many people renewing their passport now, asks man seemingly oblivious to fact the world was locked down for two years

Nottingham: Three arrested after police officer stabbed in buttock

Boris Johnson is spooked by polls showing the Tories are no longer trusted on the economy

Beleaguered Rishi Sunak is now the most unpopular Cabinet minister

Widespread strikes threaten to drag Britain back to 1970s: Unions flex their muscles in bid to secure workers inflation-busting pay rises

Renting: more than one in seven UK private tenants ‘overpaying’

Civil service head warns PM against forcing Whitehall workers back to office

Four in 10 households struggling to pay energy bills even before £700 price cap increase

UK’s Brexit losses more than 178 times bigger than trade deal gains

Britain’s hopes of post-Brexit US trade deal ‘depend on workers’ rights’ | International trade | The Guardian

/r/UK Weekly Freetalk - COVID-19, News, Random Thoughts, Etc

Sue Gray report ‘so damning Boris Johnson will have to quit’

US report ‘Britain to continue punching above its weight’

Boris Johnson cost GQ magazine £4,000 in parking tickets, former editor claims

War with Dominic Cummings leaves Johnson on a political tightrope;

Jeremy Corbyn will not be a Labour MP again after attack on Nato, Keir Starmer suggests

Three cabinet ministers face sexual misconduct claims

Bradford quad bike death: Man jailed for life for murder

Protests over water firms dumping sewage in rivers