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1. Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying outЧт, 08 мая[-/+]
The country celebrates the last big anniversary with the generation that beat Hitler

2. Young British men are turning to Catholicism in surprising numbersЧт, 08 мая[-/+]
It offers bells, smells—and certainty

3. Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disasterЧт, 08 мая[-/+]
Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

4. Aberdeen shows why the UK’s clean-energy transition will be messyЧт, 08 мая[-/+]
The jobs in renewables can’t come fast enough to replace those related to oil and gas

5. The Church of England is dying out and selling upЧт, 08 мая[-/+]
Even if you don’t go to church, this matters

6. The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to comeСр, 07 мая[-/+]
American tariffs are likely to accelerate bilateral trade deals

7. Kemi Badenoch is simply too interesting for Downing StreetВт, 06 мая[-/+]
The Tory leader is fascinating but irrelevant

8. Blighty newsletter: Italians are not so hot on BritainВт, 06 мая[-/+]
Нет описания.

9. Video producer/editor (podcasts)Пт, 02 мая[-/+]
Join The Economist’s video department

10. The fallout from Reform UK’s big win in local electionsПт, 02 мая[-/+]
For Labour, it’s a problem; for the Conservatives, an existential threat

11. Women win legal clarity—but Britain’s gender wars intensifyЧт, 01 мая[-/+]
The Supreme Court’s ruling on sex was the easy part. Implementing it will be harder

12. Britain’s Poles now earn more than the nativesЧт, 01 мая[-/+]
Possibly because the least successful migrants have left

13. Broken windows and pockmarked roadsЧт, 01 мая[-/+]
Britain has become shabbier and more disorderly. Voters have noticed

14. Scotland’s outdated land laws threaten the future of rural townsЧт, 01 мая[-/+]
But progress in reforming them is sluggish

15. Why building anything in London is so hardЧт, 01 мая[-/+]
Brownfield projects are bogged down by bewildering bureaucracy

16. The strange success of snookerСр, 30 апр[-/+]
Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going

17. Blighty newsletter: Farage and the emigration nationВт, 29 апр[-/+]
Нет описания.

18. Can a six-year-old startup revive the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?Чт, 24 апр[-/+]
Tortoise Media plans to give the Observer a rapid digital makeover

19. Ice cream and immigration at the Farage showЧт, 24 апр[-/+]
The leader of Reform UK has resurrected an old form of politics

20. Why Britain’s police forces have taken to cultivating cannabisЧт, 24 апр[-/+]
An obscure legal argument has encouraged entrepreneurialism

21. Donald Trump’s antics mean new boldness is needed in UK-EU linksЧт, 24 апр[-/+]
From trade to defence, both Britain and the European Union must reset their ambitions for their relationship

22. Nigel Farage leads a movement that is hungrier and better organisedЧт, 24 апр[-/+]
Could Reform UK take over Britain’s right?

23. Britain’s 20-20-20-20 visionСр, 23 апр[-/+]
What happens if politics becomes a four-way fight

24. Blighty newsletter: A tale of bins, bankruptcy and BirminghamВт, 22 апр[-/+]
Нет описания.

25. Birmingham’s bin strikes reveal local problems—and a national oneСр, 16 апр[-/+]
Rubbish policy and rubbish on the streets

26. Britain’s government has entered the steel industry with no planСр, 16 апр[-/+]
Even its strongest argument, national security, needs closer scrutiny

27. The splintering of British politicsСр, 16 апр[-/+]
Nine months into power, the Labour Party has haemorrhaged support

28. In praise of flag-shaggingСр, 16 апр[-/+]
To govern Britain, it helps to like it

29. How Britain decides which drugs to buyСр, 16 апр[-/+]
The NHS can’t afford all the latest miracle drugs. A quango decides who misses out

30. Are hits like “Adolescence” good or bad for Britain?Ср, 16 апр[-/+]
Commissions by streaming services are a mixed blessing for British production companies

31. What is a woman? Britain’s Supreme Court gives its answerСр, 16 апр[-/+]
The terms “woman” and “sex” refer to “a biological woman and biological sex”

32. Blighty newsletter: A big ballot-box test for Sir Keir StarmerВт, 15 апр[-/+]
Нет описания.

33. Britain’s rushed, muddled intervention in the steel industryВс, 13 апр[-/+]
Even the government’s strongest argument, national security, needs closer scrutiny

34. The most conservative place in BritainЧт, 10 апр[-/+]
Rural Lincolnshire is mysteriously right-wing

35. How the British government sounds like a tabloidЧт, 10 апр[-/+]
Whitehall talk of “boosts” and “bumper packages” is meant to clarify. Instead it confuses.

36. British telephone boxes are getting a facelift, of sortsЧт, 10 апр[-/+]
Grimy phone boxes are becoming shiny billboards

37. The British are learning to love cheap overseas health careЧт, 10 апр[-/+]
Growing numbers are heading abroad for cosmetic and other medical procedures

38. The philosopher changing free speech in BritainЧт, 10 апр[-/+]
Arif Ahmed is forcing universities to behave better

39. Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politicsСр, 09 апр[-/+]
Britain’s parties are catering to a voter who is, often literally, dead

40. Blighty newsletter: Labour is muddling its message on globalisationВт, 08 апр[-/+]
Нет описания.

41. Britain is unusually well shielded from a tariff shockВт, 08 апр[-/+]
Credit good luck more than diplomatic ingenuity

42. The Economist is seeking a Picture EditorВт, 08 апр[-/+]
An opportunity to join our picture desk in London

43. Northern Ireland could benefit from Trump’s madness. It probably won’tПт, 04 апр[-/+]
The province’s politics, already delicate after Brexit, are about to become more so

44. Every year, a few thousand people win Britain’s refugee lotteryЧт, 03 апр[-/+]
They often end up in villages

45. The assisted-dying bill isn’t dead. It is in limboЧт, 03 апр[-/+]
Waverers, not zealots, will decide its fate

46. What happens when Britain frees thousands of prisoners at once?Чт, 03 апр[-/+]
An early-discharge programme has shone light on a problem

47. The tyranny of TikTokkers who turn upСр, 02 апр[-/+]
What happens when people are savvier than the state thinks?

48. Blighty newsletter: Shields, handcuffs and swordsСр, 02 апр[-/+]
Нет описания.

49. How to run a smuggling businessВт, 01 апр[-/+]
Transporting people across the English Channel is a tough job for an entrepreneur

50. Britain’s budget watchdog has ruffled feathers in WestminsterВт, 01 апр[-/+]
But OBR sceptics risk shooting the messenger

51. Jonathan Powell: Britain’s foreign-policy fixerПт, 28 мар[-/+]
The influential intermediary faces perhaps his toughest challenge yet

52. Heathrow’s outage raises questions about Britain’s resilienceЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
If a fire at a substation can knock out Europe’s biggest airport, what about a Russian attack?

53. Why does the British tax year end on April 5th?Чт, 27 мар[-/+]
December 31st would be simpler, but nothing about the British tax system is simple

54. Can Britons be enticed to fix their draughty homes?Чт, 27 мар[-/+]
It is easier said than done

55. What is the future of British hospitals?Чт, 27 мар[-/+]
A glittering new one near Birmingham is not it

56. Britain’s wimpish effort to balance its booksЧт, 27 мар[-/+]
It is only storing up trouble for the future

57. Who will speak for Henry?Ср, 26 мар[-/+]
The “High Earner, Not Rich Yet” is the most overlooked voter in British politics

58. New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wideПн, 24 мар[-/+]
They make the country look better than America

59. The thinking behind Labour’s benefits cutsЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
Liz Kendall has reversed a decades-long trend

60. Why apprenticeships are so rare in BritainЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
And why new ideas for boosting them could easily backfire

61. ZOE, a British personal-nutrition app, is growing fastЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
But does it actually work?

62. A Northern Irish factory has a deal to make missiles for UkraineЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
But the first minister wishes it didn’t

63. Comparing apples and oranges. And also small caged mammalsЧт, 20 мар[-/+]
A biography of the British basket of goods

64. The British state has a bad case of long covidСр, 19 мар[-/+]
Britons would rather forget the coronavirus. The virus has not forgotten them

65. The Economist is seeking three Audience fellowsСр, 19 мар[-/+]
We are offering 12-month internships in London to work on our social-media platforms and newsletters, from spring or summer 2025

66. The Economist is hiring an Audience EditorСр, 19 мар[-/+]
We are recruiting a journalist in London to produce a range of newsletters

67. Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sectorСр, 19 мар[-/+]
It is not always easy to bridge the secret and commercial worlds

68. Blighty newsletter: Why are so many Britons not working?Вт, 18 мар[-/+]
Нет описания.

69. British women thrived under remote workingЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
But rather than return to the office, some have quit

70. Britain’s worklessness disasterЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
Can the government get more people working without exposing the vulnerable?

71. Dessert cafes are a symbol of modern BritainЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
A messy, blended country produces a messy, blended cuisine

72. Ships crash in the North SeaЧт, 13 мар[-/+]
A tanker and a cargo vessel collide

73. How Labour learned to love rearmamentСр, 12 мар[-/+]
Come, friendly bombs

74. DOGE comes to England’s health serviceСр, 12 мар[-/+]
Death by several thousand cuts at a vast public-sector body

75. Discord erupts in Nigel Farage’s Reform UKВт, 11 мар[-/+]
But will that halt its rise in the polls?

76. Why Britons pay so much for electricityПн, 10 мар[-/+]
Almost all the time, expensive gas sets the price

77. Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painterЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Whether he was a great painter is a different matter

78. How Mumsnet changed BritainЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
The parenting website turns 25 this month

79. A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”Чт, 06 мар[-/+]
The government asks a new working group to grapple with the issue

80. Sir Keir Starmer finds a roleЧт, 06 мар[-/+]
Foreign policy has given the Labour government a purpose, at last

81. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are forging a tight linkСр, 05 мар[-/+]
As Donald Trump threatens to leave Europe on its own

82. Britain’s government may be about to waste its best chance of successВт, 04 мар[-/+]
A bill to unblock house-building and boost growth looks far too timid

83. Blighty newsletter: Is Britain going cold on America?Вт, 04 мар[-/+]
Нет описания.

84. Britain halves its foreign-aid budgetЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
Labour will have to choose which promises to break

85. Britain’s capital markets are waging a war on paperЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
Calls are growing to modernise the country’s shareholding system

86. Paying teenagers to go to school was a bad ideaЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
At least in Britain

87. Anybody in Britain can call themselves a therapistЧт, 27 фев[-/+]
That opens the door to abuse

88. Does Britain’s nuclear deterrent have a Trump-shaped problem?Чт, 27 фев[-/+]
Higher defence spending is just the start of a painful reassessment

89. Running the Liberal Democrats is the easiest job in British politicsСр, 26 фев[-/+]
Brexit is bad! Not sure about that Elon Musk! Who likes Barbour jackets?

90. Blighty newsletter: When soft power goes wrongВт, 25 фев[-/+]
Нет описания.

91. Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policiesЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
It cannot afford to ignore other kinds of migration

92. Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitionsЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
They are screaming into the wind

93. Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffsЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
And why it may continue to do so

94. Shein attempts to mend its public image before its London debutЧт, 20 фев[-/+]
The firm has charmed shoppers. Can it win the trust of investors?

95. Should all knives with pointed ends be banned?Чт, 20 фев[-/+]
Britain’s government is considering it, along with other steps to curb fatal stabbings

96. How Britons became happy hawks on RussiaСр, 19 фев[-/+]
They simply love to poke the bear

97. Blighty newsletter: Luxury beliefs (Kemi Badenoch edition)Вт, 18 фев[-/+]
Нет описания.

98. Rachel Reeves is not alone in inflating her resumeПн, 17 фев[-/+]
Politicians around the world have been found to exaggerate or even invent their credentials. It does not always hurt them

99. Parliament is advertising for a new Black RodЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
The post offers carrot, as well as stick

100. Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is strugglingЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
The Criminal Cases Review Commission needs more money and a wider remit

101. Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the timesЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
Changing dating habits mean fewer couples

102. A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay AreaЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
Entrepreneur First has taken an American tilt

103. London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of EnglandЧт, 13 фев[-/+]
Partly because it’s a nice place to be old

104. Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?Ср, 12 фев[-/+]
Those in government seem to think so

105. Blighty newsletter: A country trapped in zero-sum thinkingВт, 11 фев[-/+]
Нет описания.

106. It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafeВт, 11 фев[-/+]
The case of a nurse jailed for killing babies exposes deep problems with British justice

107. Oxford and Cambridge are too smallЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Linking up the cities, and letting them grow, could power Britain’s economy

108. Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to growЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
NIMBYs don’t have the upper hand everywhere

109. Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdoneЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Stop worrying and learn to love the labour market

110. British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of marketsЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
The gavel takes on the invisible hand

111. Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no oneЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
Labour replaces a simple but controversial system with a complex, clunky one

112. Wanted: a Britain economics writerЧт, 06 фев[-/+]
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist

113. Must Leeds always lose?Ср, 05 фев[-/+]
Too prosperous to pity. Too poor to thrive

114. The Labour government’s choice of messengers reflects its cautionСр, 05 фев[-/+]
Our look at who tops the league for the morning media round

115. Blighty newsletter: Inside Starmer’s Brexit resetВт, 04 фев[-/+]
Нет описания.

116. Speeches in Britain’s Parliament are getting shorter—and worseПн, 03 фев[-/+]
The problem lies not merely with speaking but with listening

117. Britain’s oldest newspaper is a treasure trove of triviaЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
Why historians love the London Gazette

118. Many Britons are waiting 12 hours at A&EЧт, 30 янв[-/+]
The crisis in emergency care has deep roots

119. Is British justice too secretive?Чт, 30 янв[-/+]
Controversy rages over what happened both before and after a horrendous mass stabbing

120. The rise of the Net-Zero DadСр, 29 янв[-/+]
Middle-aged men care less about the problem. But they love the solution

121. Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growthСр, 29 янв[-/+]
It is the surest sign yet that the government is up for the fight

122. Blighty newsletter: Why Trump’s tariffs might spare BritainВт, 28 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

123. What the rise of bubble tea says about British high streetsВт, 28 янв[-/+]
A sugar rush from foreign students

124. Why Britain has fallen behind on road safetyПн, 27 янв[-/+]
More than 1,600 people still die each year in road collisions

125. Britain’s government lacks a clear Europe policyЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
It should be more ambitious over getting closer to the EU

126. What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain’s biotech sectorЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
Lots of clever scientists, not enough business nous

127. Britain’s brokers are diversifying and becoming less BritishЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
London’s depleted stockmarket is forcing them to change

128. The Rachel Reeves theory of growthЧт, 23 янв[-/+]
The chancellor says it’s her number-one priority. We ask her what that means for Britain

129. What an arcane piece of aviation law says about Britain’s governmentСр, 22 янв[-/+]
The parable of the slots

130. Blighty newsletter: Labour’s 200-day shock doctrineВт, 21 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

131. London’s pie-and-mash shops are disappearingВт, 21 янв[-/+]
Blame higher rents and changing tastes

132. Britain’s family courts are opening up to reportersПн, 20 янв[-/+]
Transparency and privacy can work together

133. Britain’s government has spooked markets and riled businessesЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
Tax rises were inevitable. Such a shaky start was not

134. David Lammy’s plan to shake up Britain’s Foreign OfficeЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
Diplomats will be tasked with growing the economy and cutting migration

135. Has the Royal Navy become too timid?Чт, 16 янв[-/+]
A new paper examines how its culture has changed

136. A plan to reorganise local government in England runs into oppositionЧт, 16 янв[-/+]
Turkeys vote against Christmas

137. Labour’s credibility trapСр, 15 янв[-/+]
Who can believe Rachel Reeves?

138. Blighty newsletter: Britain’s advantage in the AI raceВт, 14 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

139. Britain is becoming a well-mannered but deceitful societyВт, 14 янв[-/+]
Technology and sloppy government are to blame

140. Homelessness in England has risen by 26% in the past five yearsПн, 13 янв[-/+]
Manchester demonstrates how hard it will be to tackle

141. Why have Britain’s bond yields jumped sharply?Чт, 09 янв[-/+]
Mostly, blame Donald Trump. But Labour’s policies haven’t helped

142. A much-praised British scheme to help disabled workers is failing themЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
It lavishes spending on some, and unfairly deprives others

143. What Elon Musk’s tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politicsЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
An offline prime minister faces an online leader of the opposition

144. Rolls-Royce cars push the pedal on customisationЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
Be your own Bond villain

145. Britons are keener than ever to bring back lost and rare speciesЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
Immigrants that everyone can get behind

146. The phenomenon of sexual strangulation in BritainЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
A survey suggests the risky practice is more common than you might think

147. The decline in remote working hits Britain’s housing marketЧт, 09 янв[-/+]
A return to the office means a return to town

148. How means conquered endsСр, 08 янв[-/+]
British politics has become a prisoner of process

149. Blighty newsletter: What Westminster gets wrong about Elon MuskВт, 07 янв[-/+]
Нет описания.

150. The four worst words in British politicsСр, 01 янв[-/+]
Saying “not a good look” is not a good look

151. Inflation in Britain looks irritatingly persistentПн, 30 дек 2024[-/+]
Worse, the risk has appeared just as growth is sputtering

152. Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain’s schoolsВс, 29 дек 2024[-/+]
Making private ones a bit more expensive is not an inspiring start

153. Britons brace themselves for more floodsПт, 27 дек 2024[-/+]
A warming planet is making a soggy island soggier

154. Why meal-replacement drinks are shaking up the British lunchЧт, 19 дек 2024[-/+]
They are being rebranded as aspirational as well as efficient

155. The eternal BossmanСр, 18 дек 2024[-/+]
Britain’s corner shops will never die

156. How to get money from Ebenezer ScroogeСр, 18 дек 2024[-/+]
Get him to leave a gift in his will

157. Blighty newsletter: The great status shuffleВт, 17 дек 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

158. Britain’s government plans drastic changes to local democracyВт, 17 дек 2024[-/+]
The bigger, the better

159. Britain’s Labour government is keen on deporting illegal migrantsПн, 16 дек 2024[-/+]
But its efforts will run into roadblocks

160. Britain prepares for its third defence review in four yearsВс, 15 дек 2024[-/+]
Does it want to remain a serious power on land or sea?

161. Britain’s government has only half a plan to improve infrastructureЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
It is taking on NIMBYs, but has not focused on projects that will boost the economy

162. Britain’s aid budget is less generous than it looksЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
The world’s poorest are paying the price for Britain’s dysfunctional asylum system

163. Britain’s House of Lords purges itselfЧт, 12 дек 2024[-/+]
The toffs are being culled

164. British politics enters the “death zone”Ср, 11 дек 2024[-/+]
Every party in British politics is in danger, whether they think it or not

165. The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disrupterВт, 10 дек 2024[-/+]
The boss of Octopus Energy wants to change the way the world uses electricity

166. Blighty newsletter: What British politicians really earn on the sideВт, 10 дек 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

167. A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourismПн, 09 дек 2024[-/+]
Americans are especially keen on their Caledonian ancestry

168. And the prize for the oddest book title goes to…Пт, 06 дек 2024[-/+]
The literary world’s least-coveted award is announced

169. Britain’s electric-car roll-out is hitting speed bumpsЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Some clumsy EV targets will probably get revised. After that, the road should get smoother

170. Britain’s vote on assisted dying is just the beginningЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
There are still plenty of chances to kill the bill

171. How lucrative are MPs’ second jobs?Чт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
We crunch the numbers on their earnings from media gigs

172. New marching orders and a new leader for Britain’s civil serviceЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
Keir Starmer gives the new head of the civil service a near-impossible job

173. Fortnum & Mason caters to a demand for festive funЧт, 05 дек 2024[-/+]
The 317-year-old British retailer lights up for Christmas

174. The British state is blindСр, 04 дек 2024[-/+]
How to cope when a government can no longer see

175. Blighty newsletter: British MPs are more radical than we thoughtВт, 03 дек 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

176. Welsh voters think their government has mismanaged public services. RightlyВт, 03 дек 2024[-/+]
Trouble in the Labour heartlands

177. British MPs vote in favour of assisted dyingПт, 29 ноя 2024[-/+]
A monumental social reform is closer to being realised

178. Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman isЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
At last. Britons had been wondering what those 34m people who are not men might be

179. Can potholes fuel populism?Чт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
A new paper looks at one explanation for the rise of Reform UK

180. Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her?Чт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
Probably not

181. The slow death of a Labour buzzwordЧт, 28 ноя 2024[-/+]
And what that says about Britain’s place in the world

182. Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?Ср, 27 ноя 2024[-/+]
How the idea of false consciousness conquered the governing party

183. Blighty newsletter: Starmer’s silence puts the assisted-dying bill at riskВт, 26 ноя 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

184. The best British companies to work for to get aheadВт, 26 ноя 2024[-/+]
A new ranking of firms by pay, promotions and hiring practices

185. How the best British employers find and promote their staffВт, 26 ноя 2024[-/+]
No degree? Some employers care much less than others

186. A Northern Irish experiment in recyclingПн, 25 ноя 2024[-/+]
The tiny island aiming to get to net zero

187. How to fix palliative care in BritainЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
A big point of contention in the assisted-dying debate can be resolved fairly easily

188. Britain’s new government may cut the number of Channel crossingsЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
Dropping the crazy Rwanda plan was a good start

189. A sticking-plaster policy for Britain’s strained courtsЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
Magistrates get more power. Will they get punch-drunk on it?

190. Where British MPs should look before the vote on assisted dyingЧт, 21 ноя 2024[-/+]
The closest analogue to Kim Leadbeater’s bill is not Canadian but Australian

191. Assisted dying and the two concepts of libertyСр, 20 ноя 2024[-/+]
Isaiah Berlin would recognise the debate unfolding in Britain over the right to die

192. Blighty newsletter: Why phone signal in Britain is awfulВт, 19 ноя 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

193. The story of Britain’s “ginaissance”Вт, 19 ноя 2024[-/+]
Are things about to turn bitter?

194. Britain’s government wants bigger pension fundsПн, 18 ноя 2024[-/+]
That will help savers but won’t boost growth much

195. How to frame the argument over clean powerЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
An unlikely political lesson from Ed Miliband, Britain’s energy secretary

196. Britain’s star builder hits troubleЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Home truths for Vistry, and questions for the government

197. Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and gunsЧт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Britain’s grace-and-favour houses offer an odd mix of the political and the personal

198. Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?Чт, 14 ноя 2024[-/+]
Women’s football in England has big ambitions

199. Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wageСр, 13 ноя 2024[-/+]
The strange politics of wage compression

200. The archbishop and the abuserВт, 12 ноя 2024[-/+]
Why Justin Welby decided, eventually, to resign

201. The rich country with the worst mobile-phone serviceПн, 11 ноя 2024[-/+]
5G networks are fast. Their roll-out is not

202. Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budgetЧт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Businesses and farmers will be hit with more tax

203. What does it mean to wear a poppy today?Чт, 07 ноя 2024[-/+]
Remembrance is part of it. So is jingoism

204. Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald DahlСр, 06 ноя 2024[-/+]
Why are British farmers so politically feeble?

205. Blighty newsletter: Will Britain’s Trump trauma repeat itself?Вт, 05 ноя 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

206. Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities muchВт, 05 ноя 2024[-/+]
A tax rise could gobble up much of the extra cash

207. The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habitПн, 04 ноя 2024[-/+]
Expansive and rushed legislation remains a problem

208. Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”Сб, 02 ноя 2024[-/+]
It is not an obvious route to winning back disgruntled voters

209. Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestionПт, 01 ноя 2024[-/+]
But this is not a repeat of the Liz Truss debacle

210. A growing number of Britons live on canal boatsЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
But the costs are rising

211. Britain’s budget is heavy on spending but light on reformЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
Rachel Reeves has raised both borrowing and taxes by historic amounts

212. Britain’s Labour Party has forgotten how to be niceЧт, 31 окт 2024[-/+]
Small sums can have disproportionate effects on the public realm

213. Blighty newsletter: Labour’s twin pivotsВт, 29 окт 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

214. Britain’s birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recoverВт, 29 окт 2024[-/+]
Immigrants to the rescue, again

215. Meet one of Britain’s most influential, least understood peopleПн, 28 окт 2024[-/+]
What drives Sir Paul Marshall, financier, philanthropist and rising media mogul?

216. The extreme right after the riots in BritainВс, 27 окт 2024[-/+]
An amorphous movement marches in London

217. How to hold armed police to account in BritainЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
A murder charge angers officers and sparks reforms

218. Scotland’s failure to build homes is mainly due to its governmentЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
Meddling in the market has not worked

219. Britain is a world leader in pet health careЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
It’s never been a better time to be a diabetic cat

220. The shortfall in British adoptionsЧт, 24 окт 2024[-/+]
The cost-of-living crisis has hurt children and prospective parents

221. King’s Cross, a miracle in LondonСр, 23 окт 2024[-/+]
If Britain has a future, it’s there

222. Blighty newsletter: Mind the budget gapВт, 22 окт 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

223. Britain’s prison service is caught in a doom loopВт, 22 окт 2024[-/+]
Overcrowding leads to violence. Violence worsens a staffing crisis. A staffing crisis impedes rehabilitation

224. Why “The Rest Is Politics”, a British podcast, is a hitПн, 21 окт 2024[-/+]
Centrism and an old-fashioned approach to broadcasting are at its core

225. Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sectorЧт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
The government’s plans to strengthen workers’ rights may help their cause

226. Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy?Чт, 17 окт 2024[-/+]
Speculation about the budget on October 30th has spooked some rich people

227. An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to WestminsterСр, 16 окт 2024[-/+]
This time there is a good chance it will pass

228. The war on prices: British editionСр, 16 окт 2024[-/+]
Too often, politicians see prices as something to be fought

229. Could you pass the British citizenship test?Вт, 15 окт 2024[-/+]
If you’re a native-born Briton, almost certainly not

230. Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from an interview with Sir Keir StarmerВт, 15 окт 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

231. Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investmentВт, 15 окт 2024[-/+]
In an interview with The Economist, the prime minister sets out his stall

232. Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back againВс, 13 окт 2024[-/+]
The one-time figurehead of Scottish nationalism died on October 12th 2024

233. The British government fudges its employment-rights billЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Change is coming, eventually

234. Can software help ease Britain’s housing crisis?Чт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Some tech utopians think so

235. The biography of a British recycling bagЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Do you really have to wash yogurt pots before throwing them away?

236. Britain’s obsession with baked beansЧт, 10 окт 2024[-/+]
Health trends and gourmet beans are driving demand for other varieties

237. Britain’s last imperialistsСр, 09 окт 2024[-/+]
The core of the British state still believes it can lead by example

238. Blighty newsletter: Why Keir Starmer is underwhelmingВт, 08 окт 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

239. The story of one NHS operationВт, 08 окт 2024[-/+]
And what it says about how to improve the productivity of Britain’s health service

240. The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer’s managerial chopsПн, 07 окт 2024[-/+]
Faith in the prime minister’s technocratic credentials has been tested

241. Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to MauritiusПт, 04 окт 2024[-/+]
The Chagossians seem set to benefit less than China

242. Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problemЧт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
A tricky decision for the new Labour government

243. Gigafactories and dashed dreams: the parable of BlythЧт, 03 окт 2024[-/+]
What one port town says about the British economy

244. Britain’s Conservatives adopt the bad habits of the Labour leftСр, 02 окт 2024[-/+]
The cult of the member grips the opposition

245. How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the topСр, 02 окт 2024[-/+]
A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results

246. Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?Вт, 01 окт 2024[-/+]
A short guide to an odd political ritual

247. Blighty newsletter: The wonk verdict on British growthВт, 01 окт 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

248. The scourge of stolen bikes in BritainПн, 30 сен 2024[-/+]
An experiment in Liverpool shows how the police can tackle bike theft

249. Britain’s last coal-fired power station closesВс, 29 сен 2024[-/+]
The end of an era

250. Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?Чт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Allegations of company-enabled sexual abuse raise big questions

251. Should Britons’ health be considered a national asset?Чт, 26 сен 2024[-/+]
Persuading the Treasury that sickness is anti-growth

252. Inside the chaos machine of British politicsСр, 25 сен 2024[-/+]
The Labour Party promises calm. But the world it inhabits is built for chaos

253. What is Britain’s Labour government for?Ср, 25 сен 2024[-/+]
A bumpy transition from opposition to office

254. Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from Starmer’s first conference speech as prime ministerВт, 24 сен 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

255. Britain’s budget choices are not as bad as the government saysВт, 24 сен 2024[-/+]
It has more room for manoeuvre than it lets on

256. The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lipПн, 23 сен 2024[-/+]
An odd British genre has helped publishers, if not readers

257. Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles IIIПт, 20 сен 2024[-/+]
The differences between Reform UK voters and Tory supporters

258. Britain’s nuclear-test veterans want compensationЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
Other countries have accepted the argument for redress

259. How will Labour reform Britain’s public services?Чт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
Last time it had a philosophy. This time, not so much

260. British farms are luring the Instagram crowdЧт, 19 сен 2024[-/+]
More and more farmers are diversifying into hospitality

261. The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politicsСр, 18 сен 2024[-/+]
If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy

262. Ten years on from Scotland’s independence referendumСр, 18 сен 2024[-/+]
The 2014 campaign has been mythologised by nationalists

263. The broken business model of British universitiesВт, 17 сен 2024[-/+]
Frozen fees + fewer foreigners= big trouble

264. Blighty newsletter: Why Labour has a soft spot for StevenageВт, 17 сен 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

265. Treasure-hunting on England’s Jurassic CoastПн, 16 сен 2024[-/+]
Fossils on a conveyor belt

266. Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensiveЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
Unless the government steps up, it will take nearly five more years to clear the backlog

267. Why have Britain’s new towns become fashionable again?Чт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
The politics of social class is one reason

268. Volunteering has big benefits for the elderlyЧт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
But those Britons who would most benefit are least likely to do it

269. Will Labour be better at tackling dirty money than the Tories?Чт, 12 сен 2024[-/+]
Two challenges stand out. Both could be dealt with quickly

270. Loons and the Tory leadership battle in BritainСр, 11 сен 2024[-/+]
Who will speak for the Great British loon?

271. The harmony between Labour and Britain’s trade unionsВт, 10 сен 2024[-/+]
They agree on the labour market above all

272. Blighty newsletter: How Canada’s Conservatives are shaping the ToriesВт, 10 сен 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

273. Britain’s submarines are at sea for too long—or not at allПн, 09 сен 2024[-/+]
No sunlight or fresh food for months

274. Britain’s ban on arms sales to Israel mixes politics and legalismЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
The government has outlined grounds for concern but not a coherent rationale

275. What’s next for Britain and the EU?Чт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
Brexit’s economic toll is now clear. But the path forward is murky

276. Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butterЧт, 05 сен 2024[-/+]
But closer ties in foreign and security policy are still not easy to forge

277. A tardy, scathing report on the Grenfell Tower fire in LondonСр, 04 сен 2024[-/+]
Blaming lots of people slows things down

278. Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?Ср, 04 сен 2024[-/+]
The European cause is hugely popular. Its proponents are strangely ineffective

279. Blighty newsletter: Labour changes Britain’s policy towards Israel, carefullyВт, 03 сен 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

280. Police use of facial recognition in Britain is spreadingВт, 03 сен 2024[-/+]
The riots have given the technology a boost. Regulation is not keeping up

281. English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?Пн, 02 сен 2024[-/+]
The struggle to recruit and retain teaching staff

282. Why country music is booming in BritainЧт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
TikTok, tattoos and dreams of Texas

283. Heathrow’s third runway asks questions of the airport and LabourЧт, 29 авг 2024[-/+]
A decades-long saga is not over yet

284. Fixing social care in England is a true test of Labour’s ambitionСр, 28 авг 2024[-/+]
Before reform and money comes courage

285. Funding social care: an international comparisonСр, 28 авг 2024[-/+]
Lessons for Britain from other countries

286. Blighty newsletter: The return of the Good Chaps?Вт, 27 авг 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

287. Britain’s unusual stance on Chinese electric vehiclesВт, 27 авг 2024[-/+]
Unlike America or Europe, Britain is welcoming the cheap cars—for now

288. A language guide for judges is a window into modern BritainПн, 26 авг 2024[-/+]
And into the mind of the judiciary

289. The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticiansЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
And shown that many Britons are woefully ignorant of statistics

290. Britain’s government pulls the plug on a superfast computerЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
The decision is likely to hurt researchers and AI companies

291. Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishingЧт, 22 авг 2024[-/+]
Their impact is hard to measure, but can be profound

292. Mike Lynch was Britain’s first software billionaireСр, 21 авг 2024[-/+]
He was celebrating his freedom when his yacht sank in a freak storm

293. Blighty newsletter: Can Labour fix the British state?Вт, 20 авг 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.

294. The tricky politics of choosing Oxford’s next chancellorВт, 20 авг 2024[-/+]
The winner is likely to make some people cross

295. Britain’s boom in public inquiries into past disastersПн, 19 авг 2024[-/+]
Judges are still trusted to rake over political failures

296. Britain has many levers for controlling migration. Which ones should it pull?Чт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
Not the one marked “reduce the government wage bill”

297. Winston Churchill’s urinal shows Britain’s hang-up with heritageЧт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
A planned Labour reform goes down the drain

298. Britain’s oil and gas industry faces an uncertain futureЧт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
Small operators in the North Sea are struggling with a tax squeeze

299. NHS dentistry is decayingЧт, 15 авг 2024[-/+]
Can Labour stop the rot?

300. Blighty newsletter: Will Britain have more racist riots?Вт, 13 авг 2024[-/+]
Нет описания.


 
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