The relics of our industrial past
In Lancashire, clog-dancers pay tribute to a tradition they half-remember
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England won’t sleep through the migrant crisis
Before masked men descended on Dover, they stopped in a small village – and found quiet supporters
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Moore of England
Forty years after Henry Moore’s death, what is left of the country that made, celebrated, and then forgot him?
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Watching England is agony. Why do we do it?
Should we get past Argentina, and even win the final, expect Andy Burnham to take full credit
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Stevenage Woman keeps thinking about Nigel Farage
The Shy Reform effect (including among its own candidates) could reshape this classic Labour-Tory bellwether
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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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St George’s Day can’t contain the new English nationalism
In Ramsgate, officialised folklore tried to bypass the political passions of the age
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Little England, Great Britain
The war in Iran has exposed a crippling English neurosis
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Inside Middle England’s forever war
A dispatch from the front line in Rutland
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Letter of the week: England can’t save herself
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We must love WH Auden or die
The poet was a restless spirit, haunted by his own Englishness
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Nostalgia is left wing now
At a model village in Norfolk, I briefly glimpse a functioning, confident England
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Beer and Sandwiches: At the Square and Compass in Dorset
This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to letters@newstatesman.co.uk
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How to save the English diet
Try this one weird trick
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Is being a councillor the worst job in England?
Public abuse, £12,500 pay and claims of tyranny are casting a shadow over the May local elections
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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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