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Britain
Books & arts
Boris levels up
Joshua Black and Frank Bongiorno
5 December 2024
The former British PM’s highly readable memoir is just a little too tidy
Correspondents
The Keir Starmer conundrum
David Hayes
25 November 2024
British Labour’s early missteps are sullying its promise of renewal. The prime minister, unmoved, is reaching for the stars
International
One country, one system
Mark Baker
22 November 2024
Once again Britain stands by while China breaches the two countries’ agreement on Hong Kong
Books & arts
“Got a light?”
Jim Davidson
24 October 2024
Peter Parker has trawled widely to produce a documentary history of gay life in London from postwar repression to the hope induced by 1957’s Wolfenden report
Books & arts
Imperial reckoning
Ann Curthoys
8 October 2024
A new collections of essays critiques a high-profile defence of the British Empire
The view from elsewhere
The efficiency paradox
Sam Freedman
26 September 2024
Keir Starmer’s cash-strapped government is looking for savings, but “efficiency dividends” create their own problems
Books & arts
Greater than Brittany
Jim Davidson
30 July 2024
Novelist Andrew O’Hagan’s incisive account of contemporary London
Correspondents
The progressive challenge
Michael Jacobs
8 July 2024
A big majority, yes, but the success of Keir Starmer’s government rests on how effectively it deals with Britain’s deep problems
Correspondents
An evasive election
David Hayes
5 July 2024
The result is clear, but all else about Britain’s change of government is cloudy
Books & arts
Living with loss
Kate Fullagar
28 May 2024
What brought the Age of Enlightenment to an end?
Correspondents
Who is Keir Starmer?
Michael Jacobs
27 May 2024
Britain’s next prime minister doesn’t have quite the pedigree you’d expect — but his small-target strategy might seem familiar
International
Hacking’s victims fight back
Rodney Tiffen
15 May 2024
Fresh revelations suggest that the scandalous behaviour at London-based Murdoch newspapers was wider and deeper than previously believed
Correspondents
Down the drain
Michael Jacobs
4 May 2024
As raw sewage gushes into the Thames and voters turn away in droves, Rishi Sunak’s government enters its doomed home stretch
Books & arts
Born to laugh
Robert Phiddian
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
Correspondents
Lord Salisbury’s message for the housing ombudsman
Peter Mares
20 February 2024
… and the housing ombudsman’s message for Australia
Correspondents
Lost in the post
Peter Mares
12 February 2024
Britain’s Post Office scandal, kept alive by dogged journalism and a new drama series, still has a long way to run
Books & arts
A love gone wrong
Brett Evans
20 December 2023
Diplomat, adventurer, politician, podcaster: the instructive life of Rory Stewart, One Nation Tory
Books & arts
Fear of falling
Peter Browne
20 December 2023
Why would high earners have a mistaken view of where they sit on the income ladder?
Essays & reportage
Modi’s expatriate army
Hamish McDonald
20 December 2023
Western leaders are distancing themselves from the Hindu nationalism popular in some sections of India’s diaspora
From the archive
The enemy within
James Panichi
14 November 2023
How David Cameron — who returned to the British cabinet this week — fed the beast that eventually destroyed his prime ministership
Correspondents
From net zero to rock bottom
Michael Jacobs
25 September 2023
With an eye to the next election, the British government has backtracked on climate initiatives to try to drive a wedge into Labour
Books & arts
Labour’s long road to power
Peter Kellner
3 August 2023
How a restless party found a new way of thinking about socialism
Essays & reportage
’King oath
Graeme Orr
8 May 2023
Eight months a king, Charles finally took the coronation oath. Did the wait matter?
Correspondents
King, country and the Conservatives
Peter Kellner
6 May 2023
Local election defeats across England make it a better day to be a monarch than a prime minister
Correspondents
Mayo Joe, son of Ballina
Stuart Ward
15 April 2023
Did the American president’s deeply personal sense of Irish history meet the moment?
Correspondents
Riding high in April, shot down in May?
Peter Kellner
3 April 2023
May’s local elections across England will be closely watched by parties and pollsters alike
National affairs
Torpedoes ahead!
Hamish McDonald
14 March 2023
The AUKUS submarine announcement has immediately raised thorny questions about cost, timing and design
Essays & reportage
The elusive quest for decent homes
Peter Mares
1 March 2023
Not-for-profit associations are taking over as providers of affordable rental housing. What can Australia learn from Britain, where the trend is well advanced?
Correspondents
Getting Brexit undone
Sam Freedman
20 February 2023
Voter sentiment has shifted decisively, leaving the major parties in a quandary
Correspondents
Not enough houses?
Peter Mares
22 January 2023
Britain’s housing crisis has lessons for Australia
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