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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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RIP Wallace: I never realised what a great stress-reliever you were until you’d gone

Experts agree on the therapeutic benefit of a pet dog if you’re working from home

CommentDecember 28, 2022
Gavin Esler
A protester holds a placard at a demonstration against the Conservative Party's annual autumn conference in Birmingham, UK, on October 2. Bloomberg
For the UK, 2022 has been the year of self-harm

2023 needs to be the year of fixing the damage

CommentDecember 21, 2022
Gavin Esler
Britain’s financial services sector employs a million people, 3.3 per cent of all UK jobs. EPA
How Britain can prevent another financial crisis

The UK's financial sector is diminished but the country cannot afford to repeat past mistakes

CommentDecember 14, 2022
Gavin Esler
A migrant attempting to communicate with journalists is pinned at an immigration facility in Kent in November. PA Wire
If Brits can emigrate, why are some of them scared of immigrants?

Those who land on these shores, legally or not, are looking for the same thing as British expats: a better life

CommentDecember 07, 2022
Gavin Esler
A person holds a placard depicting Scottish actor Sean Connery during a rally outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Reuters
A Scottish independence vote has been held off, but for how long?

The UK Supreme Court's ruling against a referendum might strengthen the resolve of those who seek to quit the union

CommentNovember 29, 2022
Gavin Esler
The UK royal family attends the state opening of Parliament in the House of Lords chamber in May. AFP
The UK's Labour party wants to scrap the House of Lords – but then what?

Agreeing that it's idiotic is easy. The difficulty is in reaching a consensus on what should replace it

CommentNovember 23, 2022
Gavin Esler
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson and former US president Donald Trump at the UN headquarters in New York in September 2019. AFP
Recovering from years of chaos, are Britain and America finally finding the centre ground?

Trans-Atlantic politics is casting aside flawed leaders, but that's not the whole story

CommentNovember 16, 2022
Gavin Esler
Pope Francis speaks with Bahrain's King Hamad bin during their meeting in the capital Manama on November 3. AFP
Pope Francis's visit to Bahrain melted my scepticism

The Pope’s mission has been to build, or rebuild, good relations between Christians and Muslims

CommentNovember 07, 2022
Gavin Esler
Pro-EU campaigners march as they demand the UK Government to reverse Brexit and rejoin the EU in London, on October 22. Campaigners claim leaving the European Union costs the UK up to 30 bn pounds (34. 39 billion euro) a year and they blame Brexit for the country's political and financial turmoils. EPA
The Brexit buzz in the UK is back

Boris Johnson had claimed Brexit was 'done', and so we shouldn’t talk about it any more

CommentNovember 01, 2022
Gavin Esler
Rishi Sunak, centre, listening as his then boss Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street. PA Wire
Rishi Sunak needs to remove Boris Johnson's toxic legacy – Brexit

The Conservative party has done the right thing by electing Sunak, but the hard work begins now

CommentOctober 25, 2022
Gavin Esler
British Prime Minister Liz Truss at a news conference in London, on October 14. Reuters
Tory incompetence doesn't start or end with Truss

There are complicated reasons for the state of the Conservative Party, but one is quite simple

CommentOctober 18, 2022
Gavin Esler
Scottish independence supporters march through Glasgow in May during an All Under One Banner march. PA Wire
The Scottish independence movement has got a second wind

Neither of the arguments that convinced Scots to vote against the 2014 referendum are valid any more

CommentOctober 11, 2022
Gavin Esler
Kwasi Kwarteng, UK chancellor of the exchequer, delivers his keynote speech during the Conservative Party's annual autumn conference in Birmingham, UK, on October 3. Bloomberg
Not looking good: The Tories' U-turn

Self-inflicted wounds of confused Conservatives are on display this week at their annual conference

CommentOctober 04, 2022
Gavin Esler
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng discuss their growth plan ahead of a fiscal statement to the House of Commons on September 23. Picture: No 10 Downing Street
What are Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng thinking?

With the pound falling, it's clear no lessons have been learnt from the history of failure of such economic policies

CommentSeptember 28, 2022
Gavin Esler
Pedestrians pass a currency exchange in London. EPA
Will the UK government's 'fiscal event' provide respite to ordinary Britons?

It remains to be seen whether finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng can come up with bold new ideas this week

CommentSeptember 21, 2022
Gavin Esler
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