Tower Hamlets: Voting Yourself a Pay Rise While Children Starve
By an observer of English politics and local government with 0ver 40 years of experience watching the slow decay of civic accountability There are moments in English public life that…
London Records 2,250 Rapes in First 90 Days of 2026, Met Data Suggests
At England Then And Now, we track the gap between official narratives and life on the ground in modern England. Nowhere is that gap more stark than in the latest…
Did the Uni-Party Plan Mass Immigration All Along? Examining the Evidence from 1945 to Today
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%…
Beyond Overseas Recruitment: A Practical Roadmap to Training and Keeping More English Doctors
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…
When a Killer’s Rights Trump the Public’s: The Secret Report into Sara Sharif’s Death
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: Why “Best Person for the Job” No Longer Seems to Count in England
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…
From Quangos to “Shadow State”: Who Really Runs England?
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…
From Hotels to HMOs: What Surrey’s Migrant House Tells Us About Asylum Seekers in Hotels
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…
England’s First Food Bank: The Moment Our Safety Net Started to Collapse
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…
British Politicians Caused This: Why Voters Still Don’t Get It
“British Politicians Caused This” – But Most People Blame the Wrong Thing Walk down any high street in England and you can feel it: boarded‑up shops, sky‑high rents, families counting…