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Is Britain all that special?

13 mins | Jun 6, 2024

British politics may be bad, but they’re not unusual. Marie Le Conte examines how a new book aims to point out the problems with the UK that the British would rather ignore—or are finally beginning to come to terms with. Read by Emma Powell.

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