World
Maria Miller couldn’t stop the British presses
Britain’s culture minister was tasked with regulating the media. Then the media took her down.
U.K.’s powerful vow to send their kids to state schools
But they’re still snobs, writes Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren
Leah McLaren is <i>Maclean's</i> National Magazine Award-winning London correspondent. Her second novel, <i>A Better Man</i>, was published by HarperCollins in 2015.
Life
Life
All the lonely old people
An epidemic of loneliness is Britain’s ‘national shame’ and a growing health crisis among the elderly
World
The dark side of the ’nordic miracle’
Scandinavian countries may not be a perfect model for social cohesion and happiness
News
House of cads
A growing scandal has put the spotlight on sexism in the backroom boys’ club of British politics
World
While London thrives, the gritty north struggles, alienated and angry
North-south divide produces ’economics of the madhouse’
World
The U.K.’s domestic slavery shame
Recent high-profile cases of domestic bondage are just the tip of a disturbing social trend
World
Portsmouth and the end of an era
While the U.K. mourns the end of its oldest shipyard, some see a cynical political manoeuvre
World
Inside the showdown between Murdoch, the Cameron government and the media
All the news fit to hack: Britain’s tabloid trial gets under way
Politics
London’s non-domiciled residents
As the global super-rich buy real estate, the market is ‘losing touch with reality’