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1. Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying out
2. Young British men are turning to Catholicism in surprising numbers
3. Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster
4. Aberdeen shows why the UK’s clean-energy transition will be messy
5. The Church of England is dying out and selling up
6. The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to come
7. Kemi Badenoch is simply too interesting for Downing Street
10. The fallout from Reform UK’s big win in local elections
11. Women win legal clarity—but Britain’s gender wars intensify
12. Britain’s Poles now earn more than the natives
13. Broken windows and pockmarked roads
14. Scotland’s outdated land laws threaten the future of rural towns
15. Why building anything in London is so hard
16. The strange success of snooker
18. Can a six-year-old startup revive the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?
19. Ice cream and immigration at the Farage show
20. Why Britain’s police forces have taken to cultivating cannabis
21. Donald Trump’s antics mean new boldness is needed in UK-EU links
22. Nigel Farage leads a movement that is hungrier and better organised
25. Birmingham’s bin strikes reveal local problems—and a national one
26. Britain’s government has entered the steel industry with no plan
27. The splintering of British politics
29. How Britain decides which drugs to buy
30. Are hits like “Adolescence” good or bad for Britain?
31. What is a woman? Britain’s Supreme Court gives its answer
33. Britain’s rushed, muddled intervention in the steel industry
34. The most conservative place in Britain
35. How the British government sounds like a tabloid
36. British telephone boxes are getting a facelift, of sorts
37. The British are learning to love cheap overseas health care
38. The philosopher changing free speech in Britain
39. Zombie politics: how Dead Man dominates British politics
40. Blighty newsletter: Labour is muddling its message on globalisation
41. Britain is unusually well shielded from a tariff shock
42. The Economist is seeking a Picture Editor
43. Northern Ireland could benefit from Trump’s madness. It probably won’t
44. Every year, a few thousand people win Britain’s refugee lottery
45. The assisted-dying bill isn’t dead. It is in limbo
46. What happens when Britain frees thousands of prisoners at once?
47. The tyranny of TikTokkers who turn up
49. How to run a smuggling business
50. Britain’s budget watchdog has ruffled feathers in Westminster
51. Jonathan Powell: Britain’s foreign-policy fixer
52. Heathrow’s outage raises questions about Britain’s resilience
53. Why does the British tax year end on April 5th?
55. What is the future of British hospitals?
56. Britain’s wimpish effort to balance its books
57. Who will speak for Henry?
58. New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wide
59. The thinking behind Labour’s benefits cuts
60. Why apprenticeships are so rare in Britain
61. ZOE, a British personal-nutrition app, is growing fast
62. A Northern Irish factory has a deal to make missiles for Ukraine
63. Comparing apples and oranges. And also small caged mammals
64. The British state has a bad case of long covid
65. The Economist is seeking three Audience fellows
66. The Economist is hiring an Audience Editor
67. Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector
69. British women thrived under remote working
70. Britain’s worklessness disaster
71. Dessert cafes are a symbol of modern Britain
74. DOGE comes to England’s health service
75. Discord erupts in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
76. Why Britons pay so much for electricity
77. Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painter
79. A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”
80. Sir Keir Starmer finds a role
81. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are forging a tight link
82. Britain’s government may be about to waste its best chance of success
84. Britain halves its foreign-aid budget
85. Britain’s capital markets are waging a war on paper
88. Does Britain’s nuclear deterrent have a Trump-shaped problem?
89. Running the Liberal Democrats is the easiest job in British politics
91. Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policies
93. Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs
94. Shein attempts to mend its public image before its London debut
95. Should all knives with pointed ends be banned?
98. Rachel Reeves is not alone in inflating her resume
99. Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod
100. Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling
101. Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times
102. A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area
103. London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England
106. It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe
107. Oxford and Cambridge are too small
108. Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
109. Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone
110. British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets
111. Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one
112. Wanted: a Britain economics writer
114. The Labour government’s choice of messengers reflects its caution
116. Speeches in Britain’s Parliament are getting shorter—and worse
117. Britain’s oldest newspaper is a treasure trove of trivia
118. Many Britons are waiting 12 hours at A&E
119. Is British justice too secretive?
120. The rise of the Net-Zero Dad
121. Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growth
123. What the rise of bubble tea says about British high streets
124. Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
125. Britain’s government lacks a clear Europe policy
126. What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain’s biotech sector
127. Britain’s brokers are diversifying and becoming less British
128. The Rachel Reeves theory of growth
129. What an arcane piece of aviation law says about Britain’s government
131. London’s pie-and-mash shops are disappearing
132. Britain’s family courts are opening up to reporters
133. Britain’s government has spooked markets and riled businesses
134. David Lammy’s plan to shake up Britain’s Foreign Office
135. Has the Royal Navy become too timid?
136. A plan to reorganise local government in England runs into opposition
139. Britain is becoming a well-mannered but deceitful society
140. Homelessness in England has risen by 26% in the past five years
141. Why have Britain’s bond yields jumped sharply?
142. A much-praised British scheme to help disabled workers is failing them
143. What Elon Musk’s tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politics
145. Britons are keener than ever to bring back lost and rare species
146. The phenomenon of sexual strangulation in Britain
147. The decline in remote working hits Britain’s housing market
150. The four worst words in British politics
151. Inflation in Britain looks irritatingly persistent
152. Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain’s schools
153. Britons brace themselves for more floods
154. Why meal-replacement drinks are shaking up the British lunch
156. How to get money from Ebenezer Scrooge
158. Britain’s government plans drastic changes to local democracy
159. Britain’s Labour government is keen on deporting illegal migrants
160. Britain prepares for its third defence review in four years
161. Britain’s government has only half a plan to improve infrastructure
162. Britain’s aid budget is less generous than it looks
164. British politics enters the “death zone”
165. The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disrupter
166. Blighty newsletter: What British politicians really earn on the side
167. A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
168. And the prize for the oddest book title goes to…
169. Britain’s electric-car roll-out is hitting speed bumps
170. Britain’s vote on assisted dying is just the beginning
171. How lucrative are MPs’ second jobs?
172. New marching orders and a new leader for Britain’s civil service
173. Fortnum & Mason caters to a demand for festive fun
174. The British state is blind
175. Blighty newsletter: British MPs are more radical than we thought
176. Welsh voters think their government has mismanaged public services. Rightly
177. British MPs vote in favour of assisted dying
178. Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
179. Can potholes fuel populism?
181. The slow death of a Labour buzzword
182. Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
183. Blighty newsletter: Starmer’s silence puts the assisted-dying bill at risk
184. The best British companies to work for to get ahead
185. How the best British employers find and promote their staff
186. A Northern Irish experiment in recycling
187. How to fix palliative care in Britain
188. Britain’s new government may cut the number of Channel crossings
189. A sticking-plaster policy for Britain’s strained courts
190. Where British MPs should look before the vote on assisted dying
191. Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty
194. Britain’s government wants bigger pension funds
195. How to frame the argument over clean power
196. Britain’s star builder hits trouble
197. Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
198. Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
199. Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
200. The archbishop and the abuser
201. The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
202. Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budget
203. What does it mean to wear a poppy today?
204. Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl
205. Blighty newsletter: Will Britain’s Trump trauma repeat itself?
206. Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much
207. The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit
208. Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”
209. Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion
211. Britain’s budget is heavy on spending but light on reform
212. Britain’s Labour Party has forgotten how to be nice
214. Britain’s birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
215. Meet one of Britain’s most influential, least understood people
216. The extreme right after the riots in Britain
217. How to hold armed police to account in Britain
218. Scotland’s failure to build homes is mainly due to its government
219. Britain is a world leader in pet health care
220. The shortfall in British adoptions
223. Britain’s prison service is caught in a doom loop
224. Why “The Rest Is Politics”, a British podcast, is a hit
225. Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sector
226. Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy?
227. An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster
228. The war on prices: British edition
229. Could you pass the British citizenship test?
230. Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from an interview with Sir Keir Starmer
231. Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investment
232. Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again
233. The British government fudges its employment-rights bill
234. Can software help ease Britain’s housing crisis?
235. The biography of a British recycling bag
236. Britain’s obsession with baked beans
237. Britain’s last imperialists
239. The story of one NHS operation
240. The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer’s managerial chops
241. Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
242. Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problem
243. Gigafactories and dashed dreams: the parable of Blyth
244. Britain’s Conservatives adopt the bad habits of the Labour left
245. How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
246. Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?
248. The scourge of stolen bikes in Britain
250. Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?
251. Should Britons’ health be considered a national asset?
252. Inside the chaos machine of British politics
253. What is Britain’s Labour government for?
254. Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from Starmer’s first conference speech as prime minister
255. Britain’s budget choices are not as bad as the government says
256. The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip
257. Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles III
258. Britain’s nuclear-test veterans want compensation
259. How will Labour reform Britain’s public services?
260. British farms are luring the Instagram crowd
261. The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politics
262. Ten years on from Scotland’s independence referendum
263. The broken business model of British universities
264. Blighty newsletter: Why Labour has a soft spot for Stevenage
266. Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensive
267. Why have Britain’s new towns become fashionable again?
268. Volunteering has big benefits for the elderly
269. Will Labour be better at tackling dirty money than the Tories?
270. Loons and the Tory leadership battle in Britain
271. The harmony between Labour and Britain’s trade unions
272. Blighty newsletter: How Canada’s Conservatives are shaping the Tories
273. Britain’s submarines are at sea for too long—or not at all
274. Britain’s ban on arms sales to Israel mixes politics and legalism
275. What’s next for Britain and the EU?
276. Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butter
277. A tardy, scathing report on the Grenfell Tower fire in London
278. Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
279. Blighty newsletter: Labour changes Britain’s policy towards Israel, carefully
280. Police use of facial recognition in Britain is spreading
281. English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?
282. Why country music is booming in Britain
283. Heathrow’s third runway asks questions of the airport and Labour
284. Fixing social care in England is a true test of Labour’s ambition
285. Funding social care: an international comparison
287. Britain’s unusual stance on Chinese electric vehicles
288. A language guide for judges is a window into modern Britain
289. The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
290. Britain’s government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
291. Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishing
292. Mike Lynch was Britain’s first software billionaire
294. The tricky politics of choosing Oxford’s next chancellor
295. Britain’s boom in public inquiries into past disasters
296. Britain has many levers for controlling migration. Which ones should it pull?
297. Winston Churchill’s urinal shows Britain’s hang-up with heritage
298. Britain’s oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future
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