Decline

How homeless children die

The number of under-18s dying while in temporary accommodation is rising. This is a political choice

Welsh Labour is dying

The forces of nationalism and nihilism are tearing the country apart

February 1987: How did the British state react to humiliation?

Little England, Great Britain

The war in Iran has exposed a crippling English neurosis

Milan and the tragedy of decline

The final Milan derby in the storied San Siro is indicative of broader, destructive forces

Don’t let Britain decline

The Fourth Great Disruption is here

Nostalgia is left wing now

At a model village in Norfolk, I briefly glimpse a functioning, confident England

British voters never get what they want

At each election, people demand change that does not come

The dead dream of the millennium

Our century started as it meant to go on: with broken promises

Why is Keir Starmer so unpopular?

Britain needs a leader willing to break with the legacy of Thatcherism

Keir Starmer, the tragic matador

British politics is a test of individuals’ instincts more than a contest between ideologies

I was wrong about Broken Britain

The country can feel divided and lost, but there’s always another side to the story

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?

His garish fantasies about our country are starting to infect our own conservative movement

Looking for Growth looks for a political consensus

It’s a cross-party expression of Middle England class politics

Britain’s sense of decline is terminal

Even the Doing-OK parts of the country suffer from the anxieties of the past decade

Will broken windowism save Labour?

A new neighbourhood policy is designed to make up for Boris Johnson’s betrayal – and combat Nigel Farage

Is there any hope for the British high street?

Even London’s Oxford Street is succumbing to decline

Inside Stoke’s shattered pottery industry

Facing soaring energy costs and competition from east Asia, Stoke’s ceramicists are struggling to survive

The cost of apathy in England’s mining towns

Protesters that once fought deindustrialisation have turned instead on immigration.

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…