Longer-form essays on politics, economics, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves.
You know, as a Dutch person, my relationship with the Second World War isn't one of pride. It's one of absence.
Someone I was speaking with recently said something that stuck with me: "England still hasn't adjusted to who it is today and lives in the past." It was said in the context of economics, immigration, and Britain's post-Brexit position in the world. The more I've sat with it, the more I think it's one of the sharpest observations about modern England I've heard, and the deeper you dig, the more structural the problem turns out to be.