British identity and society

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• The joy of eavesdropping (even with no Lib Dems about)

  Dec 2 2008:

  After Nick Clegg's indiscretion on a flight to Scotland we want to know the best things you've overheard in public

• 'It's the best video game ever. I love this job'

  Dec 2 2008:

  The Home Office has drawn up an official list of jobs open to foreign workers because people here don't want them. Jon Henley meets the people who do them

• The BNP won't divide or rule

  Nov 28 2008:

  Asim Siddiqui and Adrian Cohen: Britain's history of tolerance and inclusion is too strong to allow the BNP to hold any sway here

• The art of haggling

  

  As the economic downturn continues, Tanya Gold investigates whether she can haggle down prices in local London shops

• The art of haggling

  Nov 24 2008:

  With the recession biting hard, shoppers can name their price - if they don't die of embarrassment first. Tanya Gold reports

• Did a French cannonball scupper the Mary Rose?

  Nov 18 2008:

  A new film on the History channel aims to show a cannonball sank Henry VIII's flagship in 1545. By Maev Kennedy

• The memory continuum

  Nov 10 2008:

  Peter Preston: The past and the present are for ever linked: just compare the Somme with the Iran-Iraq war

• Bungalow town boom

  Nov 10 2008:

  David McKie: There is little left of the West Sussex settlement once labelled the Los Angeles of British cinema

• After Obama, I can be proud of what I really am: black and white

  Nov 9 2008:

  Kamal Ahmed used to described himself as black. Now, after Obama, he says he can finally feel proud to be mixed-race

• For sale: a memory of the Charge of the Light Brigade

  Nov 5 2008:

  First-hand account written by trooper who fell on hard times after leaving the army

• How little Britain found its voice

  Nov 2 2008:

  David Mitchell: Through the mists of economic and environmental collapse, we have stumbled upon a beacon of hope

• Poohsticks fans club together to save the game

  Nov 2 2008:

  Group steps in to rescue the world championship after fears of end to eighty-year tradition

• This Muslim life

  Oct 31 2008:

  Noorjehan Barmania: Class is complicated in this country. If Prezza, that hero of the working classes, isn't sure where he fits into the system, who can be?

• The Brand-Ross affair is a chance for the BBC to end the culture of cruelty that permeates its comedy

  Oct 31 2008:

  Alexander Chancellor: For most people, the 'line' in comedy is between what is funny and what is not. Well-directed satire amuses everyone, young or old

• Statutes of liberty

  Oct 30 2008:

  From the Magna Carta to CCTV, a new exhibition at the British Library tells the definitive story of the nation's fight for liberty. Tristram Hunt is inspired

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