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Failing privatisations add to the woes of Broken Britain

UK Harvey Morris - April 3, 2024.

British households will be paying more for their water from the start of this month, adding insult to injury amid a crisis in a privately-owned...

Royal diagnosis: signs of stress but long-term condition stable

UK Harvey Morris - March 27, 2024.

Britain's royal family has emerged as victim rather than villain from the latest episode of the Windsor soap opera, a long-running saga that still retains...

What makes people British? Or French, German or Japanese?

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - March 25, 2024.

I remember decades ago reading a travelogue written by the American writer Paul Theroux, cataloguing his travels around the UK. He recorded walking past an...

UK’s Cameron seeks to move the diplomatic dial on Israel-Palestine issue

UK Harvey Morris - March 20, 2024.

The foreign secretary and former prime minister David Cameron may be in the process of redeeming a somewhat tarnished political legacy by reasserting Britain’s role...

The Scottish Play

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - March 18, 2024.

One wonders what the old Scottish folk heroes would have made of the quality of all this domestic talk of referendums on Scottish independence. In a...

British creatives in the limelight as politicians search for good news on growth  

UK Harvey Morris - March 13, 2024.

It was another great Oscar night for the British, with a string of awards highlighting the strength of the creative industries in an otherwise stagnating...

An alien’s guide to British politics

UK Harvey Morris - March 6, 2024.

Outside observers, trying to get a grip on weeks of political turmoil unfolding in Britain, would be forgiven for believing that what they usually regard...

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