Britain must finally shed its illusions of greatness
As our public services edge closer to collapse, we need the humility to acknowledge that the country has lost its…
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As our public services edge closer to collapse, we need the humility to acknowledge that the country has lost its…
ByBlack Britishness used to mean people from Caribbean backgrounds – but now it is more varied than ever.
ByThe SNP’s depiction of Scotland as a prisoner of Westminster is shrewd politics, but detached from inescapable realities.
ByThe Anglo-Celt divide continues to shape the political fate of the British Isles – yet it is a historical mirage.
ByKenneth Branagh has captured Boris Johnson’s striding stoop and gibbon arm-swing, but this series is perhaps too kind to him.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByIt’s tricky to feel celebratory during war, economic crisis and the tail end of a pandemic.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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ByThe composer dominates the BBC Proms this year, the 150th anniversary of his birth. But if this is our national…
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByFor all its banalities, the BBC’s warm-hearted recreation of the lives of previous generations of British Asians is welcome, even…
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ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
ByThe question of what England is, and what part it can play in the events unfolding, remains as unresolved as…
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