The Welfare State
💷 Britain spends hundreds of billions on welfare — but where does it actually go? A live guide to benefits, pensions, disability, claimants, spending, reform and the system behind the headlines.
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Roads: The Country Beneath the Country
Britain runs on its roads but treats them as background scenery. From potholes and utility works to freight and fragmented responsibility, this is the country beneath the country. 🛣️
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Bridge Watch — Tracking Britain’s Bridges
🌉 Bridge Watch tracks Britain’s bridges — their condition, restrictions, repairs, funding and the productivity consequences when vital connections stop working properly.
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Who Really Runs Britain?
Who really holds power in Britain? 🇬🇧🏛️ Follow the money, institutions and regulators — what they can do, who appoints them and who watches them.
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The Degree Machine: Britain’s University System
🎓 Britain’s universities can charge students more, depend on overseas fees and still lose money. Inside the system of debt, prestige, research and survival.
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Parliament — How Britain Governs Itself
🏛️ Elections choose representatives. They don’t explain the whole machine. Explore Parliament, electoral power, manifestos, accountability, devolution and where power actually sits in Britain.
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Left Behind
Britain hollowed out work, education and community, then wondered why anger, political confusion and populism filled the space. This is the story of those left behind. 🏚️
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Council — You Pay More. You See Less.
🍂 Council tax keeps rising, visible services keep shrinking, and councils across England are under extraordinary financial pressure. From the leaves that no longer get swept to failed investments, austerity, social care and emergency support — where did the money go?
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Britain’s Children — The Price of Growing Up Poor
🇬🇧 Britain is one of the world’s richest countries — yet millions of children grow up in poverty. Britain’s Children investigates the systems surrounding childhood: income, housing, childcare, benefits, maintenance, schools and political choices.
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Britain for Sale
🏷️ Britain did not disappear. Its ownership changed. Follow the sell-offs, landlords, debt structures and investors beneath the places and services Britain still thinks of as its own.
