The sick town of England
Why are 13,000 people in Dover too ill to work?
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Half-time honours for the Premier League season 2024-25
Highlights include: Jude’s flair, long hair and the end of an earpiece for Gary Lineker.
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Who can answer the English Question?
Great Britain’s largest constituent is a nation lost within a multinational state.
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Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness
Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.
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England’s revolt against change
Dismissing the summer’s riots as mere “far-right thuggery” is a political failing.
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Southport and the rage of England
The violence of the summer has left deep scars, and open wounds, across the country.
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Jilly Cooper’s very English fantasies
Her novels are so absurd they are rarely analysed. Can they tell us anything about Britain and class?
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Labour must give the land back to the people
The party has a rich history of supporting the environment – Keir Starmer should not forget this.
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What is Starmer’s story?
England’s summer riots have violently exposed the failure to resolve our national question.
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Tommy Robinson is no working-class hero
His account of Luton misrepresents the town and people I knew.
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England in pieces
Keir Starmer has imposed order after the riots. But now he must lead a national renewal.
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Only football can puncture a nation’s joy so absolutely
Also this week: Why Frank Skinner is the best person to watch the beautiful game with, and what the sanctification…
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England defeated: another glorious failure
This nation is left with no choice but to memorialise our losses as victories.
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The lure of the English garden
Olivia Laing and Richard Mabey reveal the joys, crises and politics of making a garden of one’s own.
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Dear England and the English Question
In his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
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James Graham’s Dear England is a tiresome ode to St Gareth Southgate
The National Theatre production presents the manager’s path to national saviour but fails to add anything of note to our…
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“We need water companies that are fit for purpose”: the CEO of Ofwat on regulating England’s polluted rivers
After a decade at Ofwat, David Black remains optimistic that the industry can somehow be encouraged to stop pumping sewage…
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How Deep England fell out of love with Boris Johnson
The disgraced former prime minister is not welcome among his new neighbours in rural Oxfordshire.
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The meaning of Essex
Built for commuters, the county created a brash new consumerist identity. But its success has come at a price.
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How English cricket disappeared
This year’s Wisden chronicles and fights back against the destruction of the summer game.
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