Great English dates: AD664 is the year English Christianity made a decision that would have consequences lasting almost a millennium. A straight story: The St. Michael Alignment is arguably the most prominent and intriguing of the many ley lines that criss-cross Britain. A review of Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden by George McKay. Generation F*cked: How Britain is eating its young. David Goodhart on the riots, the rappers and the Anglo-Jamaican tragedy: Did hip-hop culture play a part in the riots, and do you have to come from the inner city to discuss its problems? Look out, here comes the "feral underclass": The rioters weren’t challenging greed, they were celebrating it — we really need to understand why. Right-wingers have blamed the riots on “moral collapse” and absent fathers; 11 leading left-wing thinkers respond on what the left has to say about family values. Graham MacPhee on contemporary cultural theory and the riots in Britain. “Libel tourism” is on the rise and England is becoming a magnet for those who want to sue researchers and journalists. In defense of hacks: Britain's press is sensationalistic, sloppy, and scandal-prone — and America would be lucky to have one like it. This fall, Private Eye marks its 50th anniversary with an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, which suggests that a proudly scurrilous scandal rag has found a place in the British establishment. "Auntie Mabel doesn’t give a toss about Serbia": Jo Glanville on the future of the World Service. Aren't Kentish Men de facto also Men of Kent, and hence in the same category? It turns out that there is an historic fundament to this rather comic-sounding divide. A review of Visions of England by Roy Strong. What the bleep is the United Kingdom?
