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Photos capturing the fraught nature of English identity

England Your England — A new exhibition wrestles with complex questions around what it means to be English at a time of strife and political upheaval.

  • Culture
  • Zoe Whitfield

2020: The year in UK activism

People power — We recall month by month what has been a tumultuous year in the fight for social justice.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

Boris Johnson’s Brexit will destroy peace in Ireland

Disastrous divorce deal — Despite compromises made to quell backbench rebellion, the prime minister‘s proposal to breach international law over Brexit threatens the very foundations of peace in Ireland, writes Dawn Foster.

  • Activism
  • Dawn Foster

Is this what freedom looks like?

Welcome to Brexit Britain — At 11pm on Friday night, Britain left the European Union – and thousands headed to Parliament Square to celebrate. Photographer Theo McInnes was there to capture the crowds.

  • Photography
  • Huck

What do the Lib Dems actually want? An investigation

Please, who are you — They’re panicked, angry and desperate for relevancy, writes Eleanor Penny. If they don’t get that, they will settle for revenge.

  • Opinion
  • Eleanor Penny

All hail Coleen Rooney, the hero we need right now

Save us — The slog of Brexit is too much to bear. A literary mystery with explosive consequences is the perfect tonic for these dark times – and we scarcely deserve Rooney’s work.

  • Opinion
  • Dawn Foster

Great Britain and the toxic myth of virtuous origin

We need new stories — In her new book, We Need New Stories, journalist Nesrine Malik challenges the most damaging myths behind our age of discontent. In this condensed extract, she confronts the way the UK has ‘airbrushed’ its problematic past.

  • Books
  • Nesrine Malik

Photos of teenage life in post-Brexit Belfast

Wee Muckers — Photographer Toby Binder has been documenting the lives of Belfast’s youth ever since Brexit began to unravel. By embedding himself on either side of historic dividing lines, he found that these teens have more in common than they might realise.

  • Magazine
  • Cian Traynor

The Great British Breakup: the Blair years

Welcome to Brexitland — As Theresa May’s government ploughs on delivering a Brexit that nobody wants, our brave historian Ben Smoke dives into 40 years of mess to find out how we got here.

  • Opinion
  • Ben Smoke

The Great British Breakup: the Thatcher years

Welcome to Brexitland — As Theresa May’s government ploughs on delivering a Brexit that nobody wants, our brave historian Ben Smoke dives into 40 years of mess to find out how we got here.

  • Opinion
  • Ben Smoke

Welcome to Britain, a country that has finally lost its mind

Please help — Two years of constant political arguments and very little progress over Brexit has come to a head. Please, Theresa – put us all out of our misery.

  • Opinion
  • Dawn Foster

Dystopian shots of Britain’s rural edgelands

Bastard Countryside — In a series of manipulated images, photographer Robin Friend captures the British countryside in all of its surreal glory, depicting a national identity at odds with itself.

  • Photography
  • Jacob Charles Wilson

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