Following on from my post on British class society and how the lives of the upper classes differ from the rest, I'd like to take a closer...

In a previous post, I wrote about the cost of independent schools and the opportunities they offer. I ended up talking about friends who...

The British can be proud of having fought for many democratic achievements in throughout their history, many of which we take for granted...

In a previous post, I summarised some modern democratic standards: basic rights and laws are described in a constitution, mechanisms are...

As described in my last post, many of Britain's political institutions have a proud, centuries-old tradition. This is as impressive as it...

Looking back at my previous posts, Britain is struggling with several major crises. Low salaries and a high cost of living mean more and...

In my previous posts I described the disastrous state of the English NHS from a financial, administrative and patient perspective. But...

As described in the last post, the NHS in England has been underfunded since at least 2010 . But what kind of state is it in from the...

As previously described, the public healthcare system is the pride of Britain. Among other things, the pride results from the absence of...

In my posts about football and how it reflects society (and also how it doesn't), I have sometimes talked about Britain and sometimes...

In the first part of my football special, I demonstrated how football reflects society. German engineering spirit and the British focus...

In my post Germans are Engineers, Britons are Businessmen I dealt with the different mentalities of the two mentioned peoples and gave...

These days, the UK's national health system, the National Health Service (NHS), had its 75th anniversary. It is about time to write about...

In my post about the English education system, I explained that in some English schools (rather: in many) students are driven to focus...

Chaos and incompetence reign everywhere in Britain at least I gave that impression in my last post. But is it really everywhere? Of...

In the last post, I wrote about the English school system, and the assessment of a former teacher that neither students, teachers nor...

At the end of the last post I asked myself why many British do not consider it important to know the history of their country. And far...

In this blogpost I spend quite some time on the history of the Empire, but considering the scope of the topic, my descriptions only just...

Without the complex interplay of liberal and imperial powers, the expansion of the British Empire would not have occurred. It is an irony...

The Opium Wars were absurd: the Chinese Empire, which had the largest population and arguably the largest economy at that time, were...