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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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Loyalist graffiti with messages against the Brexit border checks in relation to the Northern Ireland protocol at the harbour in Larne, Northern Ireland February 12, 2021. Reuters
Northern Ireland's Brexit ironies would be funny if they weren't so dangerous

A political deadlock and the rollback of the NI Protocol threaten to undo decades of peace

CommentMay 18, 2022
Wizkid performs at The O2 Arena in December 2021 in London. WireImage
In a world of bad news, art can be the best medicine

Art is the illumination of the human desire to connect and create, irrespective of the period or genre

CommentMay 10, 2022
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has frozen the BBC's licence fee for two years and says it should be scrapped completely. Getty
The future of the BBC and the problems with its funding

The 100-year-old British broadcasting institution is under threat due to a licence fee saga

CommentMay 04, 2022
In this file picture taken on November 10, 2020, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Martin Reynolds, the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, arrive back at Downing Street in London. AFP
Are British bureaucrats rebelling against the Johnson administration?

Cabinet members are just not listening to the civil servants anymore

CommentApril 26, 2022
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London on April 19. EPA
Boris Johnson upends stereotypes about Brits, in all the wrong ways

Berlin is not always humourless and Britons can be 'economical with the truth'

CommentApril 19, 2022
The first 5,000 American soldiers to reach England march across historic Westminster Bridge in London, UK.
T S Eliot's poetry still touches on the great themes of our lives

'The Wasteland' was published in April 1922. A 100 years on, it is still relevant

CommentApril 12, 2022
Whitby beach on September 08, 2021 in Whitby, United Kingdom. Getty Images
Global warming by any other name is still a problem

Changing the definition of a problem, in this case a heatwave, does not solve them

CommentApril 06, 2022
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing Street, in London, on March 23. AFP
Does Rishi Sunak know the price of eggs?

Last week Sunak made what was billed as a major statement on the British economy

CommentMarch 30, 2022
The kindness of strangers for the people of Ukraine

In war, the act of giving allows donors to overcome the sense of helplessness we all feel

CommentMarch 23, 2022
For Boris Johnson, Ukraine is a welcome distraction – but not for long

A number of pressing issues at home are beginning to pinch the British public

CommentMarch 16, 2022
Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Judi Dench, Jude Hill and Lewis McAskie appear in a scene from 'Belfast'. AP Photo
The Oscars and Bafta in a time of war in Ukraine

Movies serve two critical functions when there's instability

CommentMarch 09, 2022
The US Embassy is reflected in a store window showing a photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday. EPA
Putin isn't alone in rethinking the past – so is the West

Both Russia and Europe seem to be righting the wrongs of the 1990s, albeit from different perspectives

CommentMarch 01, 2022
A storm in a teacup: Why Brits like a few days of terrible weather

We love to obsess about the weather, and there is an underlying reason that's worth examining

CommentFebruary 22, 2022
John Major is worried about where British democracy is headed

It goes well beyond the former British Prime Minister's dislike for Boris Johnson

CommentFebruary 15, 2022
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on February 2 to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) at the House of Commons. AFP
Is a British renaissance under Johnson possible?

The feuds and ambitions of those around Boris Johnson to succeed him are taking up a lot of space

CommentFebruary 08, 2022
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