12 Dec 2019 - 12:00am

Can our shattered nation survive this election? The act of voting feels less like an act of communal solidarity than an angry tribal denunciation of the other side

Giles Fraser

11.12

Should England be embarrassed by Brexit? How a national identity crisis became the subject of international ridicule

Jenny McCartney

09.12

Can Dominic Raab cling on to Esher? Such is the country's current state of political flux that the Tory tradition could be under threat in a slab of rock-solid Surrey

Ian Birrell

04.12

Who will miss Angela Merkel? The departure of the Chancellor will be a huge shock for Germany — and beyond

Mary Dejevsky

28.11

Should we have just waited for the EU to die? Niall Ferguson reveals how you can be both anti-EU and anti-Brexit

Peter Franklin

27.11

Britain’s divisions go way, way back Political maps here and across Europe reflect the actions of long-dead kings and empires

Ed West

27.11

Everything we do with tax is wrong Our hugely complicated tax system takes huge chunks of our cash — yet only makes inequality worse

Dominic Frisby

20.11

What if everyone loses this election? Come December 13, Britain could find itself in a new and extraordinary form of political chaos

James Kirkup

20.11

Stoke, the city that Britain forgot The Potteries voted to Leave by the biggest margin of any large town or city. A local lad went back to his birthplace to find out why

John Lichfield

19.11

I’m an ideologue… get me out of here! Forget celebrities in the jungle: what would happen if our political tribes were marooned on their own island?

Sam Leith

18.11

Why Remainers are the imperialist nostalgics Those devoted to the European Union are chasing an ersatz empire

Mary Harrington

18.11

Voters don’t need protecting from political ads Proposals to ban targeted adverts on Facebook show contempt for voters

Timandra Harkness