A state that stopped deciding
The backlog Britain built
Ministers of both parties have spent a decade blaming the people in the queue. The numbers point at the people running it.
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The author is a student of common law and politics in the EU.
A state that stopped deciding
Ministers of both parties have spent a decade blaming the people in the queue. The numbers point at the people running it.
The Fractured Right
After two years of decline, the Conservatives have edged ahead of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in a closely watched poll. Behind the numbers lies…
Britain’s fake gay asylum scandal
An undercover investigation has exposed how migrants, many of them Pakistani, are allegedly being coached to pose as gay in order to claim asylum…
Suffocating the MiddlePart 2 of 2
Reeves delivers a Budget which expands the state and cuts child poverty, relying on record tax and threshold freezes, but offers little comfort to…
Ideologues over IdeologyPart 1 of 2
How a radical Queens mayor, a ghost from Manhattan’s past, and a sulking tech billionaire explain the kind of charisma Donald Trump cannot resist.
The Kingdom at WarPart 2 of 3
How changing streets, new languages and unanswered letters turned quiet voters into the loudest voice in British politics.
The old guard's demisePart 1 of 3
A Muslim Home Secretary is doing what Labour’s professional class never dared to do, and England is listening.
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