International
      
        
      Capitalism in the dock
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      11 December 2018    
    
      Britain’s economic model has to change, and that may take another crisis
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Britain goes bung
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      21 November 2018    
    
      Brexit’s failure of governance is sending democracy haywire
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Anna Burns, a Booker with soul
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      17 October 2018    
    
      The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Corbyn and responsibility
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      8 October 2018    
    
      This party leader can’t own or disown his past, nor Labour’s
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      The Guardian goes for broke
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      10 January 2018    
    
      Britain’s liberal beacon is scaling down but thinking big
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      From cascade to citadel
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      6 December 2017    
    
      How the post-Weinstein furore shook British politics
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      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?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
        
      London burning
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      19 June 2017    
    
      A hulking ruin stands in judgement over a country adrift    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      Another blow for populism?
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      15 June 2017    
    
      Jeremy Corbyn’s critics might brand him a populist, but that doesn’t explain how both major parties attracted surprisingly big shares of the vote in last week’s…    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
        
      Britain’s election insurgency
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      9 June 2017    
    
      Labour has averted catastrophe, but the stunning result leaves the country with no way to negotiate Brexit    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      How May and Corbyn are following the script
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      7 June 2017    
    
      Like their Australian counterparts, British frontrunners often lose support during election campaigns    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
        
      Britain with and against itself
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      5 June 2017    
    
      A dizzying election campaign, split this time by terror attacks, might be part of a new political normal    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
        
      Theresa May versus Jeremy Corbyn: game on
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      30 May 2017    
    
      The favourite trashes her brand, the underdog relishes his. Our correspondent is perplexed    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Manchester and after
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      24 May 2017    
    
      The horrific massacre in England’s second city creates a wider sense of threat
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
        
      Chronicle of a victory foretold
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      22 May 2017    
    
      British Conservatives have history, nation, ability, luck and opponents on their side    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
        
      Theresa May’s gauntlet election
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      19 April 2017    
    
      Brexit’s titanic tests have forced the prime minister’s hand    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
        
      Yesterday’s man, tomorrow
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      30 March 2017    
    
      A Conservative chancellor turned newspaper editor may influence politics, and Brexit, in unexpected ways    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Essays & reportage
      
        
      “Them” and “us”: the enduring power of welfare myths
    
    
      Peter Whiteford 
    
    
      10 March 2017    
    
      Surveys show how persistent – and persistently wrong – beliefs about welfare spending can be
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        From the archive
      
        
      An island at the centre of the world
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      3 March 2017    
    
      A Scottish island with links to Australia is a key to the modern world
    
  
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