Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Thomas Skinner’s mental health revolution
What can a good walk do for the men of Britain?
An evening with Nish Kumar and The Guardian
Fear and loathing with the liberal elite
Britain’s elite bacchanalia
A rebellious atmosphere pervaded the Financial Times Weekend Festival
City of the future
Birmingham was once an economic powerhouse with a proud civic identity. Today it is at the forefront of a battle for the new England
The slow, inexorable death of television news
Traditional broadcasters find themselves adrift in a radically different twenty-first century
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
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Rewatching the English
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Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Botox, bodies and bogus feminism
What Planned Parenthood’s turn to Botox tells us about feminism today