Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector
FOR MOST of its 87-year history, the men and women of His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC), at Hanslope Par...
British women thrived under remote working
“Work Anywhere”, an initiative at Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society, was short-lived. In 2021 Joe Garner, the ch...
Britain’s worklessness disaster
For Sarah, the trouble started with a fracture in her back. She’d worked in a warehouse for years. Now she’s “too old to lug ...
Dessert cafés are a symbol of modern Britain
Creams cafE in Slough, west of London, was quiet at eight o’clock on a recent Friday evening. An hour and a half later it was...
Ships crash in the North Sea
At around 10am on March 10th the Solong (pictured), a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship, and the Stena Immaculate, a tanker carry...
How Labour learned to love rearmament
WHICH MP wouldn’t want a defence factory in their constituency? The median full-time pay for making weapons and ammunition in...
DOGE comes to England’s health service
IT WAS NOT only a decapitation but also a disembowelment. Fittingly for British public servants, the death of the arm’s-lengt...
Discord erupts in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
THE PAST few months have largely been good ones for Nigel Farage and Reform UK, the right-wing party he leads. Having won 14%...
Why Britons pay so much for electricity
When campaigning for office Labour named five priorities, from kickstarting economic growth to halving serious violent crime....
A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”
On the first day of Ramadan, February 28th, the government announced a new working group to provide a “definition of anti-Mus...