Can Shabana Mahmood save Labour?
If the Home Secretary solves the small-boats crisis, the party has a fighting chance of winning the next election
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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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In my shopping basket I see a feast of brown
I have become more dependent on the staples of Englishness.
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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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Who can answer the English Question?
Great Britain’s largest constituent is a nation lost within a multinational state.
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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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England in pieces
Keir Starmer has imposed order after the riots. But now he must lead a national renewal.
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Southgatism will endure
Left conservatism is a winning politics for Starmer, Southgate and our times.
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Dear England and the English Question
In his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War
How do you mourn soldiers killed in an “unjust” war? For years the town of Wootton Bassett showed us how.
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The myth of England’s “fair play” fetish
In sport and politics, the English boast that they always play by the rules – but history tells a different…
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It’s time to banish Britain’s Celtic ghosts
The Anglo-Celt divide continues to shape the political fate of the British Isles – yet it is a historical mirage.
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Why “Jerusalem” is the anthem England needs
William Blake’s poem, set to music by Hubert Parry, is viewed by some as patriotic, and others as a progressive…
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