The Economist / Britain

1. Meet John Healey, Britain’s bald fraud

   As his upcoming budget will show, the chancellor is out of his depth

2. How to help your child trounce the robots

   Junior workers need to act like senior executives

3. Britain’s elite may soon become harder to spot

   “Who’s Who”, a reference book that tracks them, is being sold

4. Britain’s least-loved hotel chain is finally splashing the cash

   New management, and the loss of government business, bring a change of strategy

5. Britain’s welfare state is living on borrowed time

   But John Healey’s budget will feed the delusion that it is not

6. Blighty newsletter: The tinpot “terrorists”

   Hugo Gye, our Britain political correspondent, on the absurdity of Palestine Action

7. Mockery keeps Britain’s politicians honest. (Almost)

   The ancient art of the parliamentary sketch is thriving in the digital era

8. Wanted: Producer, Insider

   The Economist is offering a chance to join our video and podcast departments in London

9. The Scottish National Party turns to the right

   Under John Swinney’s leadership, it is warming up to growth, drilling and data centres

10. How suicide became a lobbying tool

    Public policy is increasingly dictated by tragedy

11. The City of London honours an ancient pact

    Meet the world’s most elaborate rent payment

12. Israel and Britain have forestalled a diplomatic crisis—for now

    But a once-special relationship is faltering

13. Attack drones, meet Britain’s crack clay-pigeon shooters

    An old hobby trains soldiers for a new type of warfare

14. Britain’s new Dad’s Army

    The government wants its citizens to prepare for crises

15. Lessons from Britain’s humiliating IMF bail-out

    Fifty years on, a fiscal crisis would play out very differently

16. Blighty newsletter: England’s new spirit animals

    Banknotes reveal something about British identity, writes Hugo Gye, our Britain political correspondent

17. In Britain, “European” doesn’t mean white

    The country’s EU citizens are astonishingly diverse

18. Zack Polanski’s star is fading

    A Labour victory in north London is terrible news for the Greens’ leader

19. Are small planes Britain’s next small boats?

    The problem is that nobody knows

20. American bombers have abandoned a British base

    Their departure poses more questions than answers