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Britain
National affairs
People power
Peter Brent
4 December 2019
The tide of populism doesn’t always run the same way
Correspondents
A vote beyond the void
David Hayes
20 November 2019
Boris Johnson’s election may yet restore the pith to Britain’s democracy
International
The rise of megaphone bureaucracy?
Dennis Grube
26 September 2019
How civil servants are adapting to a hyper-partisan world
Correspondents
We, the establishment
David Hayes
25 September 2019
Britain’s Supreme Court overrules Queen, prime minister — and people
Correspondents
Moving fast and breaking things
Peter Browne
2 September 2019
How much damage will Boris Johnson and his circle inflict on Britain?
Correspondents
Brexitannia on edge
David Hayes
21 August 2019
Boris Johnson’s team, clutching European exit visa and election plan, flies towards the sun
Books & arts
How Hollywood saw England
Brian McFarlane
1 August 2019
Books
| American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
Correspondents
A good day for democracy
David Hayes
24 July 2019
Boris Johnson the showman needs to become a statesman. Can he?
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?
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
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