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Life expectancy is flatlining in Britain, the Tories are cutting years off our lives

From Where I Stand — Since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 life expectancy in Britain has near enough stopped increasing, after a century of constant growth.

  • Opinion
  • Michael Segalov

A photographic celebration of Britain in all its overcast, drizzly glory

These Islands — These Islands weaves together poetry, essays and photographic portraits of Great Britain to celebrate its grey skies and rain-drenched dreamy light.

  • Photography
  • Briony Cartmell

The paranormal, the Pagan and the posers of Solstice at Stonehenge

Summer Solstice — For the past two years, photographer Sophie Green has headed to Wiltshire to capture the magic and mystery of the centuries-old Solstice celebrations.

  • Photography
  • Biju Belinky

Young people: This is your once-in-a-generation chance to change Britain

Get out there and vote! — A radically different future is within our reach today. So why be disillusioned? Take a lesson from the people of Iran: get out there and vote.

  • Culture
  • Joe Zadeh

The crisis of masculinity facing young British Muslims

You Get Me? — Photographer Mahtab Hussain has spent years exploring what it means to be a young British Muslim, looking at race and representation, respect and cultural difference in a community under attack.

  • Photography
  • Michael Segalov

Welcome to Theresa-land: Brexit Britain getting pissed on from a height

From Where I Stand — In her long-awaited Brexit speech, many hoped Theresa May would lay out a roadmap for Britain finding its new place in the world. But James Butler argues the only direction we're heading in is towards Theresa-land: a shit, sunless, drizzling Cayman Islands, with Piers Morgan on daytime TV.

  • Opinion
  • James Butler

In conversation with the photographer who revealed Brexit Britain

A decade of discontent — Photographer CJ Clarke presents a decade of photography and a short film on Basildon, a microcosm of white working-class Britain, at Huck’s 71a Gallery.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

The photographer tracing the roots of Brexit Britain

Life on the margins — Over the course of a decade, CJ Clarke has been exploring what it means to be white, middle-class and English by documenting life in the remarkably unremarkable town of Basildon.

  • Culture
  • CJ Clarke

This is what 30 years of British counterculture looks like

Exist to Resist — Matthew Smith has spent three decades documenting street culture at its rawest, from rural raves to political protests, in the face of police pressure.

  • Culture
  • Khadija Ahmed

Forever Changes: Teenage life in Britain’s old mining towns

All Dressed Up — Photographer Karen Robinson spent over a year hanging out with the young women of East Durham, illuminating the hopes and dreams of people failed by society. What she captured were candid moments of humour, innocence and working-class resilience.

  • Culture
  • Cian Traynor

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