England
What do the English think of Englishness?
Graham Cunningham asks why Englishness has failed to garner its own version of the self-flattering national mythology of so many other nations
The spirit of Liverpool’s stories
Liverpool’s at ease with itself, the south should be too
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
The blind eye turned to Barrow
What’s not newsworthy about fascists, Islamists, grooming and death threats to journalists?
The UK’s four nations can be reinvented and flourish
The Anglo-British belief in national self-government could forge a new path
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato