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Explore our coverage of Britain’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
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A growing number of Britons are on disability benefits
The government’s attempts to cut the welfare bill miss the bigger picture
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Questions grow over the future of the London stockmarket
More than 20 listed companies are facing bids. Others are mulling their options
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Labour is the big beneficiary of Scottish political turmoil
Humza Yousaf’s successor will face a gigantic task
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Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore
He who speaks for the bore speaks for Britain
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The fight over one of Britain’s last steel plants
Closing two blast furnaces in south Wales will cut emissions and jobs
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The wider lessons of Scotland’s political turmoil
Humza Yousaf’s resignation is the latest in a string of setbacks
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Why so many Britons have taken to stand-up paddleboarding
It combines fitness, wellness and smugness
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Why Britain’s membership of the ECHR has become a political issue
And why leaving would be a mistake
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The ECtHR’s Swiss climate ruling: overreach or appropriate?
A ruling on behalf of pensioners does not mean the court has gone rogue
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Why are so many bodies in Britain found in a decomposed state?
To understand Britons’ social isolation, consider their corpses
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When academics meet “The Archers”
An annual conference offers Foucauldian analyses of the BBC radio drama. And cakes
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English local government is in a dire state
The excitement over metro mayors cannot disguise the rot
