From Mute, why do English sociologists and politicians find riots so much more explicable when they happen overseas? Nina Power finds an international logic behind “national” expressions of rage. Ian Sinclair on football’s dangerous masculinity. Julie Bindel on how the LibDem party has been overrun by lads and libertines. From TLS, a review essay on Margaret Thatcher by Ferdinand Mount (and more and more). Paul Addison reviews Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th-century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge. Matthew Engel on the British Supreme Court: The most striking fact about this place is its informality — grandeur and remoteness have been swept away. Rebecca Conway on the beauty pageant and British society. UK sights set on world's tax havens (and more). Katie Engelhart on Britain's imperial apology. The incoherence of the British empire: Maya Jasanoff reviews Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin. When (if ever) did the Sun finally set on the British Empire?
