The interwar years were as bewildering as the present
Alwyn Turner’s new history reassures us that the past is not, as many imagine, any cosier or more patriotic than…
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The 25 Brits who have defined the century so far
A ranking of the people who have shaped modern Britain’s psyche
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The dead dream of the millennium
Our century started as it meant to go on: with broken promises
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Keir Starmer, the tragic matador
British politics is a test of individuals’ instincts more than a contest between ideologies
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Great Britain’s failed state
From Chinese spies to football matches, the government’s grip on power is dissolving
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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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What it’s like to be Jewish in Britain now
The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there
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Britain must help establish a Palestinian state
It has a historical responsibility to do so
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Through the unknown gate
How Britain’s long European trauma was forged in wartime Algeria.
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The age of deportation
The haven that Britain once was is being dismantled. In its place a fortress rises.
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Flying planes with the most powerful people in Britain
With its local MP preparing for No 10, Clacton has won the argument.
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What JD Vance was really doing in Britain this week
The vice-president has become the prince of the new reactionary right.
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British food is reactionary now
Britain’s elite has discarded the cosmopolitan pan-European style for a nostalgiafest.
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An ode to summer boozing
Like lower league football and high tea, outside drinking is something Britain does better than almost any other nation.
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Britain’s swan song
How we fell out of love with the majestic waterfowl.
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Britain’s decline is as much intellectual as political
Where are our storytellers to shake us or point a way ahead?
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Labour’s summer of discontent
Unease is spreading across the country and within the party.
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All roads lead to Rome? We should be so lucky
“Welcome to Britaly” sounds more like an aspiration than an omen.
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Compulsory voting can save British democracy
Our political crisis is grave. Muscular measures can solve it.
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Britain is growing old disgracefully
The OBR says that Britain can no longer afford to exist with its current fiscal policy.
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