Britain
The failing state we’re in
Backlog Britain needs urgent reform
Is the myth of the “plucky Brit” false?
Professor Phillips O’Brien, Robert Hutton, and Graham Stewart discuss the British mindset during WWII
One big Anglo family
The other Europeans Irish share the most in common with … are the British
Disunited kingdom – and all the better for it
Boris Johnson’s ‘one great indivisible United Kingdom’ is neither one, nor indivisible, nor united
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
The dangerous lessons from Spain
Leading historian Nigel Jones argues the UK is now dangerously fractured along political lines
Take back control of the Moon
It’s time for Britain to get back into the space race
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
War-war not jaw-jaw
Robert Hutton reviews Our Man in New York by Henry Hemming
The Coronavirus Cover-Up
How the West’s fear of appearing racist obscures the blunders at the beginning of this outbreak
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
