Britain

Explore our coverage of Britain’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


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The sinking feeling caused by Labour’s clumsy start

Britain’s new government is paying for the sins of the election campaign

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Inside the chaos machine of British politics

The Labour Party promises calm. But the world it inhabits is built for chaos

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What is Britain’s Labour government for?

A bumpy transition from opposition to office

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Britain’s budget choices are not as bad as the government says

It has more room for manoeuvre than it lets on

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The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip

An odd British genre has helped publishers, if not readers

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Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles III

The differences between Reform UK voters and Tory supporters

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How will Labour reform Britain’s public services?

Last time it had a philosophy. This time, not so much 

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British farms are luring the Instagram crowd

More and more farmers are diversifying into hospitality

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Britain’s nuclear-test veterans want compensation

Other countries have accepted the argument for redress

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Britain should let university tuition fees rise

Domestic students have been paying less in real terms every year

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The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politics

If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy 

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Ten years on from Scotland’s independence referendum

The 2014 campaign has been mythologised by nationalists

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The broken business model of British universities

Frozen fees + fewer foreigners = big trouble

Culture

How today’s wealthy present themselves differently

A new book offers an engrossing but flawed takedown of Britain’s most privileged

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