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Britain is Broken: What it means and where are we going?

August 30, 2025
Britain is Broken: What it means and where are we going? Sunday National, 29 August 2025 Gerry Hassan Britain is in crisis. Doom and gloom are everywhere. The right see this as an existential mess where everything they detest can be torn down. Meanwhile what passes for the centre-left shifts ever rightward to appease the increasingly emboldened right. The UK has been in crisis before. The early 1960s saw widespread debate about national decline and the UK’s inability to economically modernise. The late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed similar discussions about the UK’s laggard economic performance and how to remove

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