Postcards from a small island
Encounters with Britishness, from Bernardine Evaristo, David Peace, Charlotte Church, Armando Iannucci, David Olusoga and more.
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A Dream of Britain
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A Dream of Britain
As a unified sense of British nationhood fades, we must ask: what is England?
As the UK fragments, we are experiencing a reawakening of English national consciousness.
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The sunny national story conjured by the 2012 London Olympics has clouded over
The turbulent and toxic political decade that followed the Games has exploded any illusion of British unity.
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Mark Gatiss: On not going to Oxbridge
After enduring countless questions about where I studied, I have realised that class, that particularly insidious – and very British…
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“I tried to give Britain a different narrative”: Tony Blair and Michael Sheen in conversation
The former prime minister and the actor who played him talk “wokeness”, national identity, and what Blair has in common…
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Michael Sheen: We are a nation in search of a story
Britain is divided by class, race, faith and history. For his guest-edited issue of the New Statesman, the actor and…
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