A Letter to the Old Country
on America’s 250th Birthday

We’re a Mess,
But Still Worth Fighting For

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Photo: Bonnie Cash/UPI/Alamy

Two hundred and fifty years ago, we broke up with you. It was messy. Break-ups usually are. There was shouting, property damage, and a certain amount of wasted tea and lives lost on both sides.

But here we are, two-and-a-half centuries on, and I’m writing to you from the country that walked out the door in 1776 to tell you something you may find hard to believe from where you’re sitting, the American ex.

You wouldn’t know it from the official festivities.

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Professor Mike Berners-Lee, chair of the National Emergency Briefing, sets out the ‘civic moment’ he is trying to create as extreme weather events show no sign of slowing

Professor Mike Berners-Lee

A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed

James Bloodworth explores whether Britain and the United States can ever mature their mutual fascination with each other into more than symbolic fantasy

James Bloodworth

Free from fear or favour

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A Letter to the Old Country
on America’s 250th Birthday

We’re a Mess,
But Still Worth Fighting For

Not the ‘New Normal’ Educating the Public on the Nature and Climate Crisis is a Step to Putting it Firmly on the Political Agenda

A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed

A Letter to the Old Country on America’s 250th Birthday

We’re a Mess, But Still Worth Fighting For

Not the ‘New Normal’ Educating the Public on the Nature and Climate Crisis is a Step to Putting it Firmly on the Political Agenda

A ‘Special’ Relationship, Indeed

A Letter to the Old Country
on America’s 250th Birthday

We’re a Mess,
But Still Worth Fighting For