Books
Charles Spencer and a historic royal manhunt
Charles Spencer, keeper of the Althorp estate and his sister Diana’s memory, is investigating a historic manhunt
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.
World
Britain’s wilful blindness to the horrors in Rotherham
What led officials to ignore Rotherham, the nation’s most shocking sex abuse scandal for more than a decade?
Life
France’s fight to save its culinary image
With restaurant standards slipping and fast food sales soaring, French cuisine is no longer the European gold standard
Television
Britain’s massive smash TV hit is...a baking show?
How a reality show all about baking—instead of bickering or backstory—became a proxy for an uncertain United Kingdom
World
Spain is suffering a mass exodus of youths
With unemployment still sky-high, this is the largest emigration since millions of people fled Franco’s dictatorship
Education
British students are slipping. Should parents take the fall?
White working-class children in the U.K. are lagging behind their peers. Fining parents could be the answer
World
J.K. Rowling enters the Scottish independence debate
Rowling’s No vote uncovers some increasingly dark forces in the debate
World
The World Cup’s most delusional fans
England is the richest soccer nation in the world, but it can’t help but feel a little let down
World
Privatizing the modern-day kibbutz
The socialist collectives made famous in the 1960s have a new mission: making money in a suburban utopia
World
Last call for bad behaviour
Why the price of a pint may be the real reason behind Britain’s sharp decline in violent crime