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Jonn Elledge

The Guardian

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What’s worth more: Churchill or a woke badger? Welcome to Britain’s banknote culture war

What’s worth more: Churchill or a woke badger? Welcome to Britain’s banknote culture war

One day soon we may finally have an answer to a question that has stumped philosophers through the ages: which is worth more, a beaver or a robin? We...

16.03.2026 10

The Guardian

Jonn Elledge

When did the British right get so unpatriotic?

When did the British right get so unpatriotic?

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10.03.2026 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Equating the Greens with Reform will ruin Labour

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23.02.2026 200

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Aggressive expansion is the American way

01.02.2026 30

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. The prejudice of The Traitors

15.01.2026 20

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Why are trains so bad in Britain? The answer begins with Ernest Marples

05.01.2026 20

iNews

Jonn Elledge

British voters never get what they want

02.01.2026 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Why does Tucker Carlson hate Britain?

05.12.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Wes Streeting has just proven he is everything Keir Starmer is not

12.11.2025 8

iNews

Jonn Elledge

The happy psychopathy of The Traitors

07.11.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

We're spending billions to house asylum seekers like animals in rancid hotels

28.10.2025 10

iNews

Jonn Elledge

The British right is swimming in an open sewer

26.10.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

13.10.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

1. No, brownfield land won’t solve the housing crisis

29.09.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

The Thursday Murder Club: how not to adapt a book

14.09.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. The flag dilemma

02.09.2025 5

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Want to know what’s going right in Britain? Come to the capital, look at the Elizabeth line railway

11.08.2025 10

The Guardian

Jonn Elledge

How Britain lost the status game

02.08.2025 7

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

The decline and fall of Great Britain

21.07.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

5. I’m on Mounjaro, and not afraid to say it

15.07.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. Grieving, I find safety in the West Wing

15.06.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

The public doesn’t like Brexit. Has anyone told the media?

03.06.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. In Andor’s universe, real history doesn’t work like the movies

29.05.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

5. The government is stuck in campaign mode

08.05.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

5. International students can save Britain’s broke universities

26.04.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

A train from the UK to Italy? We’ve heard that one before, but I’m on board

15.04.2025 10

The Guardian

Jonn Elledge

2. What Donald Trump gets right about the Canadian border

05.04.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Severance and the paradoxes of grief

28.03.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. Labour’s halfway-there planning reforms

21.03.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

5. The fall of the Roman republic is a warning about today’s degenerate populists

13.03.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

The case for devolving the railways

06.03.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes

18.02.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

Labour has lost the language of solidarity

11.02.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

3.  We are all prisoners of WhatsApp

09.02.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. Britain’s weather feels more erratic then ever. Is it really?

29.01.2025 8

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

4. Is 2025 the year I finally quit politics?

19.01.2025 10

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

London has a congestion charge – and traffic in gridlock. We need other ways to end the obsession with cars

09.01.2025 10

The Guardian

Jonn Elledge

3. The privilege of journeying home

24.12.2024 8

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge

5. Christmas can’t save the high street

24.12.2024 5

New Statesman

Jonn Elledge