The question is whether Britain can survive a political system where spectacle has replaced substance.
A timely reminder that for most people, British culture is a Chinese takeaway delivered on a French moped by an underpaid immigrant, eaten in front of a Japanese TV blaring an American sitcom.
How a mosque in Birkenhead started the patriotic revolution and why the flag is too big to be fearful
Even Nigel Farage will find that the numbers don’t bend to his populism.
The far-right hasn’t “discovered” the flag. They’ve just been louder, more aggressive, more shameless. Liberals need to reclaim it before it's too late.
Never has a group of people so fervently loathed the country they are supposed to love.
Polanski offers the left what it has been missing: a passionate, media-savvy counterweight to Farage and the far-right.
If your supermarket shop feels pricier every week, it’s not your imagination. Climate change is already at the checkout -and it’s only just getting started.
It would turn the contest on its head.
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