Britain

Taking on the taxman
An attempt to stop Britain sharing expats’ data with Uncle Sam

Can “Jenny” succeed where data-protection watchdogs have failed?

Farewell to austerity
Rishi Sunak’s budget marks a turn to big-state Conservatism

British tax rates will rise to levels last seen in the 1950s

Decarbonising Britain
Britain has ambitious climate-change plans—and two problems

Unfortunately, they are the most powerful government department and the prime minister

Ready for a leap in the dark
Why the Bank of England is looking unusually hawkish

Among other issues, policymakers fret about their credibility

Railing against modernity
A plan to revive Britain’s rural railways gathers steam

The poetry makes more sense than the economics

Making a pig’s ear of it
The British government belatedly tries to prevent a porcine tragedy

It faces a number of barriers, including the problem of “boar taint”

Doffing the cap
The government wants pension funds to help with levelling up

That will take more than a tweak to fee rules

Call in the troops, again
The British state is becoming worryingly reliant on its armed forces

Covid-19 has accelerated an existing trend

Bagehot
The death of Sir David Amess holds lessons for British politics

So, too, does his life

A tradition imperilled
The murder of Sir David Amess will change the nature of British democracy

MPs are at their most vulnerable when doing an essential, unglamorous part of their job

Demography and destiny
In Britain, childlessness seems likely to return to 1920s levels

That will strain the care system, and perhaps change the culture

All talk and no trouser
Why Stormont has dithered endlessly on corporation tax

A window of opportunity to attract investment to Northern Ireland will not stay open forever