Terrorism and the new normal in Paris
Leah McLaren on the latest terror attack, and what it means in advance of France’s presidential election
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Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren is Maclean’s National Magazine Award-winning London correspondent. Her second novel, A Better Man, was published by HarperCollins in 2015.
Theresa May’s cold election calculus
Leah McLaren on how the British prime minister’s surprise election call was a piece of risky political choreography
The cultural meaning of the Vimy memorial
The chief historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on how and why we remember the battle
What Vimy means today, a century after the iconic battle
This was not a day for dry-eyed analysis. Instead it was a day for feeling and communing with the dead, and commune we did.
Welcome back to Little Britain
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London stoically carries on
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Terror in the heart of London
British Parliament was in lockdown after an attacker killed at least 4 people and seriously injured at least 20 others
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Britain is having a national debate about the correct way to make pasta sauce—and it’s about more than white wine and cream