British voters never get what they want
At each election, people demand change that does not come
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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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Why is Keir Starmer so unpopular?
Britain needs a leader willing to break with the legacy of Thatcherism
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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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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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Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?
His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement
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Looking for Growth looks for a political consensus
It’s a cross-party expression of Middle England class politics
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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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Is there any hope for the British high street?
Even London’s Oxford Street is succumbing to decline
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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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How Birmingham became Britain’s scapegoat
After a bin strike that has run for weeks, rubbish and rats are consuming Birmingham. Have we forgotten our second…
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Keir Starmer’s hollow state
Labour’s planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel…
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The prophet of the new right
In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.
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Torsten Bell: Is Britain’s decline reversible?
Will Dunn sits down with Torsten Bell, Labour MP for Swansea West.
Those delighting in the EU’s decline should be careful what they wish for
Squeezed between the US and China, the bloc is in a life-threatening crisis.
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Does Labour have the courage to reverse Britain’s decline?
To avert political and economic failure, a Starmer government may have to act more radically.
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Britain’s eternal decline
Debate on Britain’s place in the world has flared through war, imperial upheaval and Thatcherism. Brexit reignited it.
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The world ended in 1973
In the West, five decades of economic stagnation have scrambled politics.
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