On dysfunctional governance in the United Kingdom. In July 2024, the Conservative Party was ejected from office with an ignominy that was towering and by a margin unprecedented in its long history.

British politics today is steadily fracturing into multiple parties, no longer two or even three. Brexit, the agonizing ...

Why did the United Kingdom leave the European Union? Perhaps, said Michael Gove in The Spectator, “it might be better to ask why did it ever join?” In this “panoramic history of British – and ...

Almost half of British voters believe that the statement “a secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war” is definitely or probably true, points out ...

At the end of February, Green candidate Hannah Spencer won a major upset victory in the by-election for the constituency of ...

In the middle decades of the 19th century, Britain experienced rapid industrial change without suffering revolution or major ...