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David Batty

David Batty is a news editor and writer. His specialist areas are the super rich, cultural politics, visual art, higher education and social affairs. He has worked at the Guardian since 2001, and also lectures in journalism

July 2024

  • Graphic depicting Labour cabinet members as the heads on a bunch of flowers against a red background.

    Who is in the new Labour cabinet?

  • Tony Blair hand in hand with Cherie Blair smailing and greeting people at an outdoor capaign event

    From Baldwin to Blair and more: the biggest landslides in British election history

  • Rishi Sunak during a visit to a primary school in Romsey, Hampshire.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    PM says he will take full responsibility for result after minister predicts Labour landslide – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer in a hospital with a crowd of health workers behind him.

    ‘Unambitious’, ‘careful’, ‘authentic’: what public sector workers make of Keir Starmer

June 2024

  • Reform party candidate Mark Butcher stands outside a polling station during local elections in May 2024

    ‘Get real, wakey wakey, red pill time’: Reform candidates in their own words

    We’re all entitled to our opinions, says one party candidate. His aren’t the only ones to have attracted controversy
  • Composite image of a hand pointing at a calendar marked Tuesday 18th June

    How do I register to vote in the 4 July 2024 general election?

    Don’t miss the chance to have your say in the vote to choose the next UK government
  • Close up of Maria Nugara with her arm around her son Giuseppe Morreale's shoulder, both smiling

    Man appears in court charged with murder of wife and stepson in Essex

    Calogero Ricotta, 63, accused of killing Maria Nugara, 54, and Giuseppe Morreale, 29, in the village of Ugley

May 2024

  • A graphic showing half of Rishi Sunak's face on the left and half of Keir Starmer on the right

    The toolmaker’s son and the ex-banker (richer than the king) vying to be the UK’s next prime minister

    The Conservative and Labour leaders come from starkly different backgrounds but both are fighting for the political middle ground
  • People wave on a harbour as RNLI craft and a Royal Navy rescue helicopter pass by in Newquay, Cornwall.

    Mayday Stinky Bay: places’ nicknames added to UK database to help rescuers

    Ordnance Survey’s Vernacular Names Tool contains unofficial names – many created by local people – of 9,000 locations
  • View of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

    Dorset auction house withdraws Egyptian human skulls from sale

    MP says trade in remains is ‘gross violation of human dignity’, as skulls from Pitt Rivers collection removed

April 2024

  • Harry Hunter seen on his own tackling an uphill slope in the sand

    ‘The heat is burning’: Harry Hunter, 76, becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables

  • George Osborne.

    George Osborne clashed with No 10 over selection of British Museum director

March 2024

  • Nicholas Cullinan and Courtney Love pose for a picture outside the awards

    Nicholas Cullinan: energetic leader tasked with British Museum overhaul

    After overseeing a transformation of the National Portrait Gallery he will need to draw on that experience in his new role
  • Nicholas Cullinan

    British Museum appoints new director after alleged thefts scandal

    Nicholas Cullinan, head of National Portrait Gallery, replaces Hartwig Fischer, who resigned over response to allegations

    • Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill-health worldwide, finds study

    • More than a quarter of ambulance staff ‘sexually harassed by public’

    • How ‘no-go zone’ myth spread from fringes to mainstream UK politics

February 2024

  • Nathan Bake

    Cheshire mechanic who ran child sexual abuse sites jailed for 16 years

    Nathan Bake, 28, was second-in-command at dark web site that allowed millions of child abuse images to be shared

January 2024

  • An ad showing a bottle of Planteray Rum on a table with open coconuts next to it and plants in the background

    Company renames Plantation rum after criticism over slavery link

  • Visitors at the immersive Van Gogh exhibition

    Immersive exhibitions based on artists such as Van Gogh and Dali derided as ‘money grab’

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