We shouldn’t demonise Winston Churchill – or deify him
The point of history is to see people and situations in the round rather than to succumb to satisfying myths.
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Rishi Sunak’s vision for “Global Britain” is empty
What should we make of a Brexiteer who studied stateside and tried to avoid Cop27?
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How the Ford Fiesta defined the British economy
Ford has discontinued what was for many years Britain’s most popular car.
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Liz Truss is a morbid symptom of British capitalism’s long crisis
The Prime Minister unwittingly posed a question that should haunt her party: what is the point of capitalism if it…
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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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Britain braces itself for the devastation of austerity 2.0
Britons on low incomes dread the Liz Truss government’s “reverse Robin Hood” plan, which prioritises bankers over benefit claimants.
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The Conservatives’ Great Leap Forward
Liz Truss and her team understand the British economy’s weaknesses but their utopian free-market solutions are undermining the Bank of…
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“People have nowhere to turn”: Britain’s first “warm banks” open their doors
Charities and councils offer refuge for people who cannot afford heating this winter.
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When will we be able to hope again?
Anyone in their early thirties has known bust without boom for their entire adult life.
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Decoding the UK’s economic crisis
What do Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng really want? To maintain Britain’s standing as a rentier’s paradise – and they…
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How public support for tax and spend has surged
Fifty two per cent of voters support higher taxes and public spending, and just 6 per cent want them cut.
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Queen Elizabeth made us feel less embarrassed about Britishness and empire
Without the Queen, we are scrambling to find a national identity we can be proud of.
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The Queen’s death leaves a nation unsure of its place in the world
This is the second act of a national realignment that began with the UK’s departure from the EU.
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An ode to the Great British music festival
From Green Man to Glastonbury, the best festivals are UK festivals.
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Sluggish investment is worsening the UK’s crises
The country has lagged behind its peers, and now we’re seeing the results.
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Why Britain’s decline resembles the fall of Rome
Under craven, venal, populist leaders, countries can lose their way frighteningly fast. Just ask the Romans.
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Britain’s painful decline since the 2012 London Olympics
We are a country that has lost its way – divided, dispirited, dysfunctional and shorn of common purpose.
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The absurdities of Suella Braverman’s “war on woke”
The Attorney-General claims we live in a country in which diversity, equality and inclusion is the new orthodoxy – if…
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Half of struggling families have no spending money after monthly bills
Amid the rising cost of living, 49 per cent of families in financial hardship have nothing left after housing costs…
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This is an age of stagnation, and young people are stuck in perpetual adolescence
We live in a gerontocracy, where the Conservatives pursue socialism for the old and capitalism for the young.
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