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
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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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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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