Review of Downward Spiral: Collapsing public standards and how to restore them by John Bowers KC Political systems, in their decline, often become so gummed up by procedure, factions, petty officials and assorted spoonbenders that no one is able.
Queen Camilla, 76, was chatting to guests at a garden party at Lamb House in Rye, East Sussex, where she was treated to a performance by actors Timothy West and Hayley Mills.
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Posthumously explored notebooks and letters led Hugh Firth and Loulou Brown to a story of parental infidelity that now form the basis of a book filled with love and secrets. Dan Carrier spoke to them
The Labour-run council will now only work with businesses whose values align with our own and which positively influence social attitudes within its electoral wards.