“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: Great pub-licity
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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Of course Rishi Sunak is English
In his comments on English identity, Konstantin Kisin was giving voice to a racial essentialism dangerously prominent on the right.
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Richard Curtis’s Christmas carol
Is it possible to believe that love actually is all around?
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The sick town of England
Why are 13,000 people in Dover too ill to work?
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Half-time honours for the Premier League season 2024-25
Highlights include: Jude’s flair, long hair and the end of an earpiece for Gary Lineker.
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Who can answer the English Question?
Great Britain’s largest constituent is a nation lost within a multinational state.
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Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness
Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.
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England’s revolt against change
Dismissing the summer’s riots as mere “far-right thuggery” is a political failing.
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Southport and the rage of England
The violence of the summer has left deep scars, and open wounds, across the country.
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Jilly Cooper’s very English fantasies
Her novels are so absurd they are rarely analysed. Can they tell us anything about Britain and class?
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Labour must give the land back to the people
The party has a rich history of supporting the environment – Keir Starmer should not forget this.
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What is Starmer’s story?
England’s summer riots have violently exposed the failure to resolve our national question.
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Tommy Robinson is no working-class hero
His account of Luton misrepresents the town and people I knew.
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