National Conversations

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What next for youth in the north-east?

One of the most pressing issues today is the sheer amount of young people in need of employment. Since the recession, the rate of people aged 16 to 25 not in work has been steadily increasing, with over 979,000 young people unemployed nationwide between December 2012 and February 2013. The north-east has the highest rates of youth unemployment. What then can be done to help today’s youth, asks Next Generation thinker Matilda Neill.

From left: Anthony Clavane, Maureen Grant, Sunder Katwala, Riz Rehman and Jason McKeown.

Bradford’s cup run must stimulate more city pride

"Bradford needs more than just one cup final. It needs more winners. People are desperate; people want change.” These...

Polish integration at University of Hull

To Hull and Back Again: Poles connecting

University of Hull Professor Martin Goodman describes how Polish migrants have become integrated into the Hull community, and how...

St George's flag

“I’m English, but not British”

I can’t really pinpoint an exact moment when I stopped feeling British; it was more of a process than...

A video about Northampton's shoe industry

VIDEO: Marching through Northampton’s shoe history

It's the town where Dr Marten's first made their mark, and Oliver Cromwell got his marching boots; British Future's...

Robin Linnecar, director of the City of London Festival

The heart of London: celebrating art at the City of London Festival

London may be known as a great financial centre, but it’s the arts that are at the heart of...

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Jerusalem is David Cameron’s choice of English anthem

David Cameron would be tempted to choose Jerusalem as an English anthem for England’s sporting teams, the Prime Minister...

Photo: Paul Foot

“Everybody has two flags”

The upsurge in belief in an English identity over the past five years is not the threat to...

St George's flag

For God, Harry and St George

Author and journalist Andrew Gimson asks whether St George’s Day can, or should, ever become for the English what...

England fans

More calls for an English anthem

Following on from our director Sunder Katwala's letter to the Prime Minister and our An Anthem For England campaign,...

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British Future writes to the Prime Minister

Director of British Future Sunder Katwala wrote to David Cameron for St. George's Day, asking for the Prime Minister...

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National Conversation: England

For Stanley Baldwin, Conservative prime minister of the 1920s and 1930s, Englishness was a sensibility, writes Anthony Painter.

Its essence…