Britain

Explore our coverage of Britain’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video

Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk arrive at a press conference after talks in Warsaw, Poland, on January 17th 2025

Britain

Britain and Poland are set to sign a big new security treaty

The balance of power between the countries is changing 

3 min read

A mini cooper with the UK being welcomed through a gate marked as EU

Europe

Bre-entry may be the next drama to grip the European Union

An old friend comes knocking

5 min read

Collage of Burnham holding a placard of Starmer crossed out.

Britain

Hate Labour? Vote Labour!

Makerfield and the new politics of paradox 

5 min read

A collage of two politicians men wearing knights helmets and fighting with roses.

Britain

Labour’s “battle for ideas” is a skirmish over small differences

And it ducks the questions that matter most

5 min read

A poster promoting the HS2 rail project stands in the city centre on April 19, 2022 in Birmingham, England.

Britain

Britain’s second-biggest city goes from dysfunctional to worse

Once the best-governed city in the world

5 min read

Bristol City fans hold up a tin foil Emirates FA Cup trophy after the Emirates FA Cup Third Round Replay match between Bristol City and West Ham United.

Britain

Why football attendance is booming outside the Premier League 

Prices push, purism pulls

2 min read

Manchester City scarf

Britain

The legal case hanging over Man City and the Premier League

Loud shouts for a penalty

2 min read

Illustration of members of the Labour party pictured as football players, looking beaten after a game.

Leaders

Lessons from the Premier League for Britain’s next premier

How a deflated country can bounce back

3 min read

Archive image of British monarch HM Queen Elizabeth II then Princess Elizabeth and HRH Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh pictured leaving Westminster Abbey, London, after the wedding ceremony 20 November 1947.

Culture

Plot Twist newsletter: The art of royal dressing

Rachel Lloyd, our deputy culture editor, considers how Queen Elizabeth II dressed to impress the world

3 min read

Kenyan fans of Arsenal FC react while watching a match on television in Nairobi, Kenya

Britain

In football, Britain has a world-beating industry

Many things in the country aren’t working. The Premier League is

7 min read

Protesters gather and march across London to Parliament Square during the "Unite the Kingdom" rally in London, May 16th 2026

Britain

Blighty newsletter: Who goes to a Tommy Robinson rally?

An eclectic crowd attended the latest march, reports Georgia Banjo, our Britain correspondent

3 min read

Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham at Holy Trinity Primary School, Ashton Under Lyne, April 13th 2026

Britain

The battle to lead Labour—and Britain—hangs on a by-election

If Andy Burnham beats Reform UK in June he will ride into Westminster a hero

5 min read