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Gavin Esler is a writer, award-winning broadcaster and podcaster. He was the BBC’s chief correspondent in North America for eight years and a long-time anchor of Newsnight, Dateline London and other BBC programmes. He is the author of five novels and four works of non-fiction, including most recently ‘How Britain Ends'. His awards include a Sony Gold and a Royal Television Society award. His new book ‘Britain Is Better Than This’ will be published in September 2023.
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If Brits can emigrate, why are some of them scared of immigrants?

Those who land on these shores, legally or not, are looking for the same thing as British expats: a better life

CommentDecember 07, 2022
A person holds a placard depicting Scottish actor Sean Connery during a rally outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Reuters
A Scottish independence vote has been held off, but for how long?

The UK Supreme Court's ruling against a referendum might strengthen the resolve of those who seek to quit the union

CommentNovember 29, 2022
The UK royal family attends the state opening of Parliament in the House of Lords chamber in May. AFP
The UK's Labour party wants to scrap the House of Lords – but then what?

Agreeing that it's idiotic is easy. The difficulty is in reaching a consensus on what should replace it

CommentNovember 23, 2022
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson and former US president Donald Trump at the UN headquarters in New York in September 2019. AFP
Recovering from years of chaos, are Britain and America finally finding the centre ground?

Trans-Atlantic politics is casting aside flawed leaders, but that's not the whole story

CommentNovember 16, 2022
Pope Francis speaks with Bahrain's King Hamad bin during their meeting in the capital Manama on November 3. AFP
Pope Francis's visit to Bahrain melted my scepticism

The Pope’s mission has been to build, or rebuild, good relations between Christians and Muslims

CommentNovember 07, 2022
Pro-EU campaigners march as they demand the UK Government to reverse Brexit and rejoin the EU in London, on October 22. Campaigners claim leaving the European Union costs the UK up to 30 bn pounds (34. 39 billion euro) a year and they blame Brexit for the country's political and financial turmoils. EPA
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The Brexit buzz in the UK is back

Boris Johnson had claimed Brexit was 'done', and so we shouldn’t talk about it any more

CommentNovember 01, 2022
Rishi Sunak needs to remove Boris Johnson's toxic legacy – Brexit

The Conservative party has done the right thing by electing Sunak, but the hard work begins now

CommentOctober 25, 2022
British Prime Minister Liz Truss at a news conference in London, on October 14. Reuters
Tory incompetence doesn't start or end with Truss

There are complicated reasons for the state of the Conservative Party, but one is quite simple

CommentOctober 18, 2022
The Scottish independence movement has got a second wind

Neither of the arguments that convinced Scots to vote against the 2014 referendum are valid any more

CommentOctober 11, 2022
Kwasi Kwarteng, UK chancellor of the exchequer, delivers his keynote speech during the Conservative Party's annual autumn conference in Birmingham, UK, on October 3. Bloomberg
Not looking good: The Tories' U-turn

Self-inflicted wounds of confused Conservatives are on display this week at their annual conference

CommentOctober 04, 2022
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng discuss their growth plan ahead of a fiscal statement to the House of Commons on September 23. Picture: No 10 Downing Street
What are Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng thinking?

With the pound falling, it's clear no lessons have been learnt from the history of failure of such economic policies

CommentSeptember 28, 2022
Pedestrians pass a currency exchange in London. EPA
Will the UK government's 'fiscal event' provide respite to ordinary Britons?

It remains to be seen whether finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng can come up with bold new ideas this week

CommentSeptember 21, 2022
Then prince Charles delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of Cop26 in Glasgow last November. AP Photo
What will King Charles want his crowning achievement to be?

Awaiting the British monarch is a divided kingdom, a commonwealth in need of new energy and a planet on fire

CommentSeptember 13, 2022
The death of the queen marks the end of our Elizabethan era
Weekend Essay: The death of the queen marks the end of our Elizabethan era

British monarchs may no longer be as central to the nation as they once were, but Elizabeth II was truly irreplaceable

WeekendSeptember 08, 2022
New Conservative Party leader and incoming prime minister Liz Truss arrives at the party headquarters in London on Monday. Getty
Liz Truss: is the UK’s new boss better than the old one?

If the incoming prime minister fails to 'get Brexit done', she will meet the same fate as her predecessor

CommentSeptember 06, 2022
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