I was wrong about Broken Britain
The country can feel divided and lost, but there’s always another side to the story
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What baby books taught me about the British state
The Bookstart scheme, which gives books to newborns, is a remnant from a more beneficent political era
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The cruelty of Kemi Badenoch’s “Benefits Street” politics
“Scroungers” are back, courtesy of the Conservative party and the right-wing press
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Britain’s sense of decline is terminal
Even the Doing-OK parts of the country suffer from the anxieties of the past decade
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Will broken windowism save Labour?
A new neighbourhood policy is designed to make up for Boris Johnson’s betrayal – and combat Nigel Farage
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Inside Stoke’s shattered pottery industry
Facing soaring energy costs and competition from east Asia, Stoke’s ceramicists are struggling to survive
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The cost of apathy in England’s mining towns
Protesters that once fought deindustrialisation have turned instead on immigration.
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Britain’s new-build nightmare
How the dream of home ownership ran into the reality of an under-regulated market.
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