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Gavin Esler

Gavin Esler

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Gavin Esler is a writer, award-winning broadcaster and podcaster. He was the BBC’s chief correspondent in North America for eight years and a long-time anchor of Newsnight, Dateline London and other BBC programmes. He is the author of five novels and four works of non-fiction, including most recently ‘How Britain Ends'. His awards include a Sony Gold and a Royal Television Society award. His new book ‘Britain Is Better Than This’ will be published in September 2023.
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Anti-immigration activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, addresses the public in Tel Aviv, on October 18. Reuters
CommentWhat Tommy Robinson's visit to Israel tell us about the UK's far right

The British government and most citizens are appalled by the intolerance of people like Tommy Two-Names

CommentOctober 21, 2025
Shoppers in London. Ordinary people feel poorer and left behind by the stock market boom. Getty Images
CommentWhy are today’s stock market highs making people nervous?

Investors and politicians across the world have one main fear

CommentOctober 16, 2025
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, during a media interview at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Tuesday. Bloomberg
CommentKemi Badenoch can't save the Tories from their troubles

Her missteps have added to her inability to inspire the UK's most successful political party

CommentOctober 07, 2025
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage after delivering his speech at the Reform UK party conference, on September 5. AFP
CommentFarage's lead across UK polls should be the big concern for Starmer

Labour and the Tories are trying to figure out how to counter the rise of Farage’s Reform UK

CommentSeptember 30, 2025
British Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham, Mayor of Manchester, left, during the launch of the party's general election manifesto in 2024. Bloomberg
Starmer's dismal ratings will make the Labour conference a less-than-happy affair

When the party gathers in Liverpool on September 28 it may prove a less than happy affair for the British Prime Minister

CommentSeptember 24, 2025
Unifil's Major Akakpo damage to the base hospital after the Lebanese base was his by a rocket during the war. Matt Kynaston for The National
CommentIn 80 years of UNGA, keeping the peace has never looked so difficult

It’s not easy to count how many conflicts there are in the world today

CommentSeptember 17, 2025
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage at the Reform UK annual conference in Birmingham last week. EPA
Starmer needs to go on the attack to counter Farage's popularity

The British Prime Minister will be judged on whether he can solve some of the UK's more intractable problems

CommentSeptember 10, 2025
A protest near a hotel after the UK government won a court ruling resulting in asylum seekers not being evicted from the hotel in Epping on Sunday. Reuters
No, Mr Farage – inciting racial hatred cannot be justified as free speech

Defending someone who made inflammatory remarks is like agreeing with those who like to stoke the flames of fear

CommentSeptember 03, 2025
Right now, flags have become the subject of a different type of conflict, political rather than military. AP
CommentPretend patriots are flagging up division over diversity

National symbols are important and powerful but in the hands of the ultra-right they send out a message of exclusion

OpinionAugust 27, 2025
Tommy Robinson, left, arrives at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. PA
CommentBefore telling scare stories about migrants, the UK far right should look in the mirror

A debate on migration in Britain is crucial, but it should not be led by criminals and advocates of violence

CommentAugust 13, 2025
A digital ID system could be inevitable and would make government bureaucracy easier to navigate. Getty Images
CommentDigital identity cards in the UK might soon be a reality

It could provoke a storm of very British outrage from some, but be quietly welcomed by most

CommentAugust 06, 2025
People at the beach in Whitstable Bay, south east England, on July 23. AFP
CommentAre Britain's clean seas a thing of the past?

The privatisation of the water industry in England and Wales by Margaret Thatcher in 1989 has been a profound failure

CommentJuly 30, 2025
A temporary polling station near Wimbledon, on July 4. AP
16 year olds to vote in UK is fine but core issues remain

Other changes being considered by Starmer’s government could be useful too

CommentJuly 23, 2025
A health worker injects a boy with a dose of the measles vaccine, during a measles vaccination drive in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on June 15. Reuters
CommentMeasles is back but it didn't have to be. What is the western world thinking?

The US is seeing the worst measles outbreak in 33 years

CommentJuly 15, 2025
Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a rally in New York last week. AP
Zohran Mamdani's rise shows change is always constant in electoral politics

Whether it's Trump or Meloni or Farage, voters are looking for something – anything – new

CommentJuly 08, 2025
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