Britain | Bank regulation

Mervyn agonistes

British banks will soon have a new master. He does not seem to like them much

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Britain's King Charles III (C-L) and Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales (C-R) speak with Second World War veterans during a tea party at Buckingham Palace

Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying out

The country celebrates the last big anniversary with the generation that beat Hitler

offshore wind turbines and oil tankers in Aberdeen

Aberdeen shows why the UK’s clean-energy transition will be messy

The jobs in renewables can’t come fast enough to replace those related to oil and gas


Winter sun highlights the church steeple

The Church of England is dying out and selling up

Even if you don’t go to church, this matters


Young British men are turning to Catholicism in surprising numbers

It offers bells, smells—and certainty

Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster

Three choices: fiscal implosion, deep austerity or a hasty U-turn

The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to come

American tariffs are likely to accelerate bilateral trade deals