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Britain

Power Shift

Andy Burnham’s emergence as Britain’s likely next Prime Minister is significant not simply because it heralds a change of leadership, but because it could place the country’s most prominent advocate of devolution at the head of government.

Brexit Dividend

Ten years after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the most revealing aspect of Brexit is not what happened, but what did not.

Memory and History

The withdrawal of an artwork from Britain’s National Portrait Gallery over its portrayal of Winston Churchill's role in the Bengal Famine of 1943 is not merely another episode in the culture wars.

Unwritten Histories

More than a century after she broke into one of Britain’s most exclusive medical institutions, Jamini Sen is only now being restored to public memory ~ through a recent biography and renewed institutional recognition.

Privilege on Trial

When the former holder of high office is arrested, the real test is not only of that individual but of the institutions that once protected his authority.

Winter of discontent

 On paper, the man who predicted everything that would go wrong with Ms Truss’ economic prescription for Britain, and which did go horribly wrong once she embarked on the path she had set out on, ought to be the front-runner to succeed her, especially as he did enjoy some support within the party.

The colonialist and the revolutionary

Francophone West Africa has for several years been beset by an Islamist insurgency that nations such as Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have failed to repel, despite international assistance.

Moderniser who steered monarchy

Elizabeth II inherited a monarchy whose political power had been steadily ebbing away since the 18th century but whose role in the public life of the nation seemed, if anything, to have grown ever more important.