Dear England and the English Question
In his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
ByIn his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
ByThe National Theatre production presents the manager’s path to national saviour but fails to add anything of note to our…
ByAfter a decade at Ofwat, David Black remains optimistic that the industry can somehow be encouraged to stop pumping sewage…
ByThe disgraced former prime minister is not welcome among his new neighbours in rural Oxfordshire.
ByBuilt for commuters, the county created a brash new consumerist identity. But its success has come at a price.
ByThis year’s Wisden chronicles and fights back against the destruction of the summer game.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByExclusive polling for the New Statesman reveals enthusiasm for coalition governing in defiance of national parties.
ByThe government should be funding cessation services and cracking down on Big Tobacco rather than fixating on e-cigarettes.
ByMedics on picket lines are declining interviews and telling journalists that only union reps can speak.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByTeachers act as social workers, counsellors, nurses, childminders, cooks, cleaners – and even police.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByThe Sussex landscape has proven irresistible to artists for hundreds of years.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByIs it cheaper to watch matches at home or the pub? The football cost-of-living crisis – in numbers.
ByAs our public services edge closer to collapse, we need the humility to acknowledge that the country has lost its…
ByBlack Britishness used to mean people from Caribbean backgrounds – but now it is more varied than ever.
ByThe SNP’s depiction of Scotland as a prisoner of Westminster is shrewd politics, but detached from inescapable realities.
ByThe Anglo-Celt divide continues to shape the political fate of the British Isles – yet it is a historical mirage.
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