Britain

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Dessert cafés are a symbol of modern Britain

A messy, blended country produces a messy, blended cuisine

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Ships crash in the North Sea

A tanker and a cargo vessel collide

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Britain’s worklessness disaster

Can the government get more people working without exposing the vulnerable?

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British women thrived under remote working

But rather than return to the office, some have quit

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How Labour learned to love rearmament

Come, friendly bombs

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DOGE comes to England’s health service

Death by several thousand cuts at a vast public-sector body

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Discord erupts in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

But will that halt its rise in the polls?

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Why Britons pay so much for electricity

Almost all the time, expensive gas sets the price

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How Mumsnet changed Britain

The parenting website turns 25 this month

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A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”

The government asks a new working group to grapple with the issue

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Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painter

Whether he was a great painter is a different matter

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Sir Keir Starmer finds a role

Foreign policy has given the Labour government a purpose, at last