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There is a question that sits at the heart of post-war English history, and it has never been properly answered: How did England go from a nation that was 99%…
For almost four decades in and around the NHS workforce debate, I’ve watched the same story play out in English hospitals: rota gaps, panic, an overseas recruitment drive, a brief…
British Transport Police have launched an appeal after a man was reportedly seen committing an indecent act on a District line service in East London. The incident is said to…
When a child is tortured and murdered, and the state then hides how it failed her in order to protect the rights of the man who killed her, something has…
White applicants excluded. That’s a phrase that shouldn’t sit comfortably with anyone who believes in basic fairness, yet it’s becoming increasingly common in conversations about jobs, internships, and public life…
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…