Britain

Bagehot
How the Conservative Party got diverse

The world’s oldest political party has done a good job of embracing ethnic diversity

Music and language
Grime and UK drill are exporting multicultural London English

It has helped English rappers create a distinctive sound

Space industry
Britain’s launch into the space race looks shaky

The government says the space ventures it has funded will make money. That is unlikely

Migration
Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China

China voices fury at the opening of a new visa scheme

Isolation
Why Britons go to work with covid-19

Inadequate support payments are a false economy

Retail
An online sales boom is killing supermarket profits

The chains are victims of their own pandemic success

Covid-19
A successful vaccination drive is crucial to Boris Johnson’s government

It would restore faith in his premiership and deflate the Conservative Party’s lockdown rebels