The English have begun to hate
The online anti-immigration movement has discovered a buried form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism
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The last flags of Faversham
Why night-time vigilantes are stripping hundreds of St George’s Crosses from Kent lamp-posts
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This England: Taking the biscuit
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Britain’s Fawlty state of mind
Fifty years after it was first aired, Fawlty Towers now looks ahead of its time
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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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Release the pigs!
It’s pannage time in the New Forest. But is the land more threatened by man or beast?
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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Visions of an English civil war
Why is the political right obsessed with social breakdown?
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The Cotswolds plot against JD Vance
The US vice-president is spending the summer in Charlbury. Will he be fooled by its charms?
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From the archive: England endures
August 1966: Danny Blanchflower reflects on England’s football World Cup win.
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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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The Lionesses’ resilience is an example to us all
Also this week: coffee with James Graham, and the birth of the new left.
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“I blame Maggie!” How sewage radicalised England
River and shoreline pollution is “up there with small boats” in the public imagination.
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The endless variety of England’s folk traditions
Lally MacBeth’s attempt to chronicle of-the-people culture in detail is a treasure trove of both British folk memory and new…
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True “Yorkshire tea” is the ultimate in processed food
An exhibition in Ryedale shows just how much skill and graft goes into making a meal.
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Neo-Nazi safari
How close can any journalist get to the English far right?
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This England. This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of…
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The Lib Dems’ Middle England revolution
As Kemi Badenoch chases Reform, she is losing her party’s traditional heartlands.
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The road that built England
The country’s elusive identity resides not in a National Trust garden, but on the thundering dual carriageway of the A1.
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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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