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Britain
Books & Arts
The sulphurous intrigue of the past
Matthew Ricketson
12 July 2019
Books
| The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner
Correspondents
Britain’s trapped transition
David Hayes
28 June 2019
One thing is needed before Brexit: a coherent government
Essays & Reportage
Boris’s brain
James Murphy
1 June 2019
Australian tactician Lynton Crosby could win the prime ministership for Boris Johnson, but at what cost?
Correspondents
“Our house is burning”
David Hayes
24 May 2019
A young prophet of apocalypse invigorates Europe’s climate debate
Correspondents
If… A Brexit fable
David Hayes
2 April 2019
Suppose the Remainers had narrowly won the 2016 Brexit referendum. What happened next?
International
The enemy within
James Panichi
2 April 2019
Britain created a caricature of the European Union, and Australian journalists went along with it
National Affairs
How Britain kicked coal
John Quiggin
2 April 2019
Once heavily reliant on coal-fired power, the British economy has taken the shift in its stride
Correspondents
All at sea in Brexitannia
David Hayes
11 March 2019
The mutinies continue, but the endgame of Britain’s European drama could also be an opening
International
Exclusion, prosecution or restricted re-entry?
Jessie Blackbourn
26 February 2019
The controversy over Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain from Syria has parallels in Australia
Correspondents
The London spring
David Hayes
19 February 2019
A split from Labour is a shaft of light amid the Brexit gloom
Essays & Reportage
Appealing to the country
Tony Blackshield
19 February 2019
Parliament unworkable? There are precedents for sending MPs back to the people, but they might not embolden the governor-general
Correspondents
Capitalism in the dock
David Hayes
11 December 2018
Britain’s economic model has to change, and that may take another crisis
Correspondents
B-Day, and beyond
Peter Mares
10 December 2018
At Westminster, parliament will almost certainly vote down the British prime minister’s Brexit plan. No one knows what will happen next
Correspondents
Britain goes bung
David Hayes
21 November 2018
Brexit’s failure of governance is sending democracy haywire
Correspondents
Anna Burns, a Booker with soul
David Hayes
17 October 2018
The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift
Correspondents
Corbyn and responsibility
David Hayes
8 October 2018
This party leader can’t own or disown his past, nor Labour’s
Correspondents
British eyes on Canberra’s mess
David Hayes
27 August 2018
Letter from London
| Australia’s political drama gives Britain respite from Brexit, along with a crash course in Canberrology
Correspondents
A mad riddle, plus plus plus
David Hayes
27 July 2018
Britain’s exit from Europe is showing the flaws of both parties to the negotiations
Correspondents
Ireland’s new body politics
David Hayes
22 June 2018
Ireland’s vote to legalise abortion is having a percussive impact on its neighbours
Essays & Reportage
Royal drama, with variations
Susan Lever
6 June 2018
A wedding, four plays and a TV series — do the British have something to teach us about scrutinising power?
Correspondents
How citizens became aliens
David Hayes
29 May 2018
The British government’s torment of West Indians links two national fixations: immigration and Europe
National Affairs
Government by algorithm
Mike Steketee
6 April 2018
Automated welfare didn’t end with the robodebt controversy. Here and overseas, governments are turning vital decisions over to computers
Correspondents
Russia’s war on history
David Hayes
30 March 2018
How a poison attack in an English cathedral city became an international diplomatic crisis
Books & Arts
Scenes from an old country
Brian McFarlane
28 March 2018
Cinema
| The British Film Festival has been an unexpected hit with Australian audiences
Correspondents
The Guardian goes for broke
David Hayes
10 January 2018
Britain’s liberal beacon is scaling down but thinking big
Correspondents
From cascade to citadel
David Hayes
6 December 2017
How the post-Weinstein furore shook British politics
Correspondents
Kazuo Ishiguro: a sense of freedom
David Hayes
10 October 2017
Letter from London
| A Nobel award gives the British novelist’s voice as well as his work a new authority
Books & Arts
British India: the case for the prosecution
Robin Jeffrey
1 September 2017
Books
| Shashi Tharoor’s vigorous rejoinder to defenders of empire teaches other lessons as well
Correspondents
The land that fell to earth
David Hayes
16 August 2017
Britain has spiralled into political failure since voting to leave the European Union. What happened, and what happens next?
Correspondents
London burning
David Hayes
19 June 2017
A hulking ruin stands in judgement over a country adrift
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