The forgotten brilliance of Britain’s postwar cinema
As a new film season at the BFI shows, we can read the character of a battered nation and its…
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Rochdale vs York and the triumph of local football
We hear that Brits are more smartphone-addled and skint than ever. But non-league football might be the answer
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Why do Britain’s streets feel so scary?
Failing the vulnerable fails everyone
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Britain can’t afford to be middle class any more
As the country braces for a price shock, what it means to be poor is changing
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After the Iran war, the electro-state will rise
For Britain, the age of fossil fuels is gradually ending
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Britain’s Gaullist turn
There’s something about France that seems reminiscent of a lost Britain
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Don’t let Britain decline
The Fourth Great Disruption is here
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James Meek’s broken Britain
The LRB essayist’s new novel draws from his reporting on a dysfunctional nation
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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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