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Tinkering at the edges will not salvage Britain’s welfare state

UK Harvey Morris - March 19, 2025.

Faced with changing spending priorities in a sluggish economy, the UK government is set on a cost-cutting programme that critics fear could further undermine the...

Is it time to ditch the eternal quest to define the English?

UK Harvey Morris - March 12, 2025.

How English are you? A question that might sound like a tiebreaker in a pub quiz - “Bad luck. The answer we were looking for is...

Can Britain help to head off Trump’s Ukraine ‘surrender’?

UK Harvey Morris - March 5, 2025.

Britain’s normally fractious House of Commons this week lavished cross-party praise on Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his deft diplomatic handling of the transatlantic crisis...

Life copies art as 007 fights to survive tech takeover

UK Harvey Morris - February 26, 2025.

While the UK fixates on the threatened demise of the transatlantic alliance, film buffs on both sides of the pond are aflutter over the fate...

Starmer’s potential role is as Europe’s envoy rather than Trump’s messenger

UK Harvey Morris - February 19, 2025.

The UK government’s foreign policy mantra has been that Britain will not make a choice between prioritising relations with either Europe or the United States...

Can the ‘nation of shopkeepers’ reshape the retail sector?

UK Harvey Morris - February 5, 2025.

A string of shop closures scheduled for this year is adding to the woes of Britain’s once-busy high streets and highlighting the challenges facing a...

UK government confronts skeptics with pledge to turbocharge growth

UK Harvey Morris - January 29, 2025.

The UK government is switching its messaging from pain to gain as it seeks to convince skeptical investors and consumers that its overriding priority in...

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