The Economist Britain

Jamie Driscoll is helping to deliver the Tories’ signature policy

The prime minister raises taxes and breaks a promise

The province’s businesses and consumers must either pay higher prices, or receive government handouts in perpetuity

Helping children catch up will take years

But the prospect of another referendum on independence is remote

When the government wants something done, it invokes the health service

Demand has recovered much faster than supply. That is causing shortages and bottlenecks

Britain plans to trim European online-privacy laws

Dominic Raab fails to rise to the challenge of Britain’s biggest foreign-policy crisis in decades

Whether this is a good thing is a matter of taste

British workplaces are likely to see more strikes

The past of the city can be seen in its present

It strengthens the case for Boris Johnson’s government to work more closely with the European Union

The build-to-rent sector is booming

But will the commuters come?

Seen from the suburbs, Blairism and Johnsonism look uncannily alike

The subscription platform wobbles under pressure from banks

As the threat from covid-19 recedes, what should stay?

The surge will change the country, while it lasts

Once the black stuff fuelled separatism. These days it is a political headache