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Introduction: The Government in England You Never Voted For Living through forty years of elections, manifestos and ministerial reshuffles, you start to notice something uncomfortable about how England is actually…
A quiet Surrey street that says everything about where we are If you want to see what’s gone wrong with immigration and asylum in England, you don’t need a think…
I’ve been working in and around safety, public information, and digital publishing for 19 years, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: honest, practical information helps people far…
Police wish to speak to these two men regarding the incident at Oxford Circus underground station(Image: British Transport Police)
Every St George’s Day the same idiots show up. You know exactly who I mean. The people who only mention England to sneer at it, who crawl out once a…
When “Emergency Help” Became Everyday Life If you’d told people in the 1990s that food banks would become part of everyday life in England, most would have laughed it off…
There’s a building in St James’s Square in central London that most people have never heard of. It has a blue flag, a grand entrance, and a number 10 on…
London today is statistically and experientially one of the most hostile places in England for women and girls, with recorded abuse and sexual offences rising even as authorities pledge to…