
Helen Pidd
Northern England Editor at The Guardian
Presenter at Today in Focus
Presenter of Today in Focus, the Guardian's award winning daily podcast. Former North of England editor. Contact me in confidence via [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Zoe Williams |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent
On Friday it was announced that David Beckham was to receive his knighthood – the fruits of a campaign for the honour that started more than a decade ago. So why now? And what does it say about the UK’s honours system – and its class system – that it took so long?
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Zoe Williams |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent
“England trail by two goals to one. Beckham could raise the roof here with a goal,” goes the commentary, as David Beckham lines up a free-kick against Greece, shortly before whipping it into the top corner. “I don’t believe it! David Beckham scores the goal to take England all the way to the World Cup finals! Give that man a knighthood!”The year was 2001, and the ultimate honour seemed close for England’s biggest football player – and perhaps the most famous living Briton, full stop.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Heather Stewart |Lucy Hough |Ivor Manley |Joel Cox |Sami Kent
The last few weeks have proved difficult for Rachel Reeves. In public, the news has been dominated by Labour’s U-turn on the winter fuel allowance. In private, the Treasury has been caught up in wrangle after wrangle with ministers, all negotiating what their departments would receive in the spending review. Reeves’ speech to parliament on Wednesday announcing the review was a chance to tell a more positive story – particularly for a government accused of lacking direction and ambition.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Richard Norton-Taylor |Alex Atack |Rudi Zygadlo |Sami Kent |Elizabeth Cassin
On Monday, the prime minister, Keir Starmer, told Britain it was facing threats that were “more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the cold war”. It was time, he said, to make Britain a “battle-ready, armour-clad nation”. As the government publishes its strategic defence review, the former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor tells Helen Pidd there are still serious questions over whether Britain is ready for this new era.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Moira Donegan |Ruth Abrahams |Alex Atack |Tony Onuchukwu |Elizabeth Cassin
Why is pro-natalism – the idea that society should focus on producing children – a growing movement in the US? The Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan tells Helen Pidd: “This is not something that average people in the US are crying out for. People are having the number of children that they desire and think that they can support, right?
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