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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Rebellion in the air
The sirens are beginning to sound about the state of Britain and its government.
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Why is Birmingham leading Britain’s child poverty spiral?
The UK’s forgotten second city is at the apex of a worrying trend.
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Anarchy in the “yookay”
How the new right came to loathe Britain even more than the radical left.
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Nigel Farage’s mutinous army
Reform’s local election rally in Birmingham was soured by pessimism – and rumblings of internal dissent.
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Why Britain needs Asia
In the wake of Trump’s turn against Ukraine, the UK must coordinate with both its European and Asian allies.
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Can the British Council be saved?
CEO Scott McDonald on an imperilled institution.
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The return of the Americosceptic Tory
Donald Trump’s presidency has already reshaped UK politics.
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How will Britain pay for higher military spending?
The defence budget is already a procurement disaster.
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Where to find meaning
As Christianity in Britain declines, two new books ask: what should we believe in now?
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How will Britain defend itself?
Government needs to be totally rethought if the UK is to fill the “gaping holes” in its military preparedness.
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