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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John Le Carré and the spectre of British decline
The 1970s London of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was a place of decay. What defines it now?
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Britain has never faced decline like this before
The difference with past periods of economic woe is how meekly the political class is accepting the UK’s fate.
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Leader: How to reverse British decline
Rather than indulging in post-imperial fantasies, Britain should learn from those mid-sized economies that are both richer and more equal…
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Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline
The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.
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