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Micha Theiner / VISUM / Redux What Is the Point of Boris Johnson?
Two years after his historic general-election win, the most radical British prime minister since Margaret Thatcher is scandal-plagued, unpopular, and adrift.
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Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Britain’s Distasteful Soccer Sellout
The sale of Newcastle United to Saudi Arabia is emblematic of something far more fundamental and depressing about the state of Britain.
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Matt Dunham / AP Is Boris Johnson a Liar?
And if he is, why don’t his supporters seem to care?
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The Atlantic Why Britain and France Hate Each Other
The two countries are more similar than is often acknowledged.
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Nadav Kander The Minister of Chaos
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he’s doing.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Party Whose Success Is a Problem
The Scottish National Party has no viable opposition—so it has created one from within.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Pandemic Disaster That Might Not Matter
Britain’s COVID-19 death toll has risen above 100,000. But, if it is successful, the country’s vaccine drive may leave a more lasting memory.
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Mary Turner / Panos Pictures / Redux Britain Failed. Again.
The country has gone into lockdown once more. The current set of restrictions has more troubling reasons than the last.
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Jim Wileman / Guardian / eyevine / Redux Why Britain’s Brexit Mayhem Was Worth It
The country appeared willing to throw away a huge chunk of trade over a minor industry. But national life has to be about more than simple calculations of GDP.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Britain’s Vaccine Nationalism
The country has bet that, outside the EU, it can better regulate its economy to become more competitive.
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Rebecca Sunflower Thomas When Discrimination Targets the Privileged
Meet the feminist aristocrats fighting for the right of daughters to inherit peerages.
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Frank Augstein / AP The Rare Sight of a Political Reckoning
Britain’s Labour Party has suspended its former leader. Who knew in this partisan age that politicians could hold their own side to account?
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Getty / The Atlantic Boris Johnson Keeps Defying Gravity
The British prime minister continually survives the chaos of his choices—much to pundits’ chagrin. How?
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The Print Collector / Heritage Images / Getty The Great British Humbling
Like the bind of a tortuous finger trap, Britain’s Brexit conundrum grows tighter and more painful the more the country wrestles with it.
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The Atlantic How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness
Boris Johnson has faced his share of blame for the country’s death count. But the British system was failing long before the coronavirus struck.
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Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Embracing the Compromises of Political Giants
John Hume helped bring peace to Northern Ireland. But the true legacy of his life lies in his understanding of complexity.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Conservative Case for Liberalizing Divorce
Britain has finally passed a new law allowing for no-fault divorce, all without a culture war.
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OLI SCARFF / AFP via Getty What Boris Johnson Should Have Known
A touch of Churchillian circumspection—rather than just bulldog bravado—might have saved the prime minister’s moral and political authority.
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Getty / The Atlantic Crises Are No Time for Political Unity
The leader of Britain’s Labour Party is showing what you can do when you don’t have a leader’s bully pulpit.
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Celina Pereira You Should Politicize the Coronavirus
The pandemic raises unavoidable and legitimate political questions. We should be suspicious of any attempt to dismiss them.
