What everyone knows about Britain*How do you see Britain? It's tempting to think of the UK as a fundamentally stable and successful nation. But events of the past few years, from Brexit to exposs of imperial history, have begun to spark fierce public debates about whether that is true. Is Britain, just a marginal northern European island nation, marked by injustices, corruption and with a bloody history of slavery, repression and looting? And yet UK politics, media, and public opinion

From one of America's iconic writers

Marcus Berkmann

after a promising beginning

by comedian Al Murray

among others

leaping ashore from a longboat

From the medieval styles of Henry VII and VIII

Beauty and the Beast2

unaware of any world outside

A little boy is kidnapped as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home

at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor

allusion and confessional