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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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Then prince Charles delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of Cop26 in Glasgow last November. AP Photo
What will King Charles want his crowning achievement to be?

Awaiting the British monarch is a divided kingdom, a commonwealth in need of new energy and a planet on fire

CommentSeptember 13, 2022
Gavin Esler
The death of the queen marks the end of our Elizabethan era
Weekend Essay: The death of the queen marks the end of our Elizabethan era

British monarchs may no longer be as central to the nation as they once were, but Elizabeth II was truly irreplaceable

WeekendSeptember 08, 2022
Gavin Esler
New Conservative Party leader and incoming prime minister Liz Truss arrives at the party headquarters in London on Monday. Getty
Liz Truss: is the UK’s new boss better than the old one?

If the incoming prime minister fails to 'get Brexit done', she will meet the same fate as her predecessor

CommentSeptember 06, 2022
Gavin Esler
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson during an election campaign trail in Manchester in November 2019. AP Photo
The Lost Cause of Boris Johnson

Like many Americans miss Trump, there is remorse among a number of Britons over their leader's impending exit

CommentAugust 31, 2022
Gavin Esler
Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency in the Cabinet Office Jacob Rees-Mogg (right), Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries (second right) and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack (third right) listen as Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) chairs a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, on June 7. PA Wire
Politicians in Britain are leading a boom in satire

But being prime minister should not be a comedy act

CommentAugust 24, 2022
Gavin Esler
Margaret Thatcher in 1986, and Liz Truss in 2021. AP Photo
Truss tapping into Thatcher signals a wider problem

Around the world, political nostalgia has become fashionable

CommentAugust 17, 2022
Gavin Esler
Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. AFP
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump: could their comebacks be alike too?

Neither likes being away from the spotlight too long

CommentAugust 10, 2022
Gavin Esler
A dry bank of a tributary to the Dowry Reservoir close to the English town of Oldham in Greater Manchester. PA Wire
Can we change the climate of complacency?

Climate action is happening but whether it is happening at the necessary speed is open to question

CommentAugust 02, 2022
Gavin Esler
Long queues of travellers at French border control before boarding ferries in Dover, UK, on Friday. Bloomberg
Are the British Conservatives in big trouble?

The same factor that led to parties being voted out of power in 1970s and 1990s is increasingly visible today

CommentJuly 27, 2022
Gavin Esler
Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, seen from Southbank, in London, on July 8. Senior Conservative members of parliament launched their leadership bids to replace British prime minister Johnson, who resigned as Tory Party leader on July 7. EPA
Boris Johnson's successor and a peculiar British tradition

The Conservatives choosing the next UK Prime Minister are not very geographically, socially or racially diverse

CommentJuly 19, 2022
Gavin Esler
Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks into an electron microscope in a laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute on Monday in London. Getty Images
Why Boris Johnson's successor is likely to fail, too

The outgoing Prime Minister will bequeath a laundry list of unfinished business

CommentJuly 12, 2022
Gavin Esler
Boris Johnson, UK's prime minister, at 10 Downing Street in London, on July 1. Bloomberg
Even before Sunak and Javid, the Tory press had turned against Boris Johnson

The political bankruptcy in the UK has been building leading up to the resignations of two key ministers

CommentJuly 06, 2022
Gavin Esler
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson during the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali on Friday. AP Photo
Boris Johnson's Rwanda plan will fail, but will that matter to him?

As with a number of his previous initiatives, politics will always trump policy

CommentJune 28, 2022
Gavin Esler
A near empty concourse, during a rail workers strike, at London Waterloo railway station in London, UK, on June 21. Bloomberg
England is yet again a tale of divisions in the North and South

The country is full of hard working, decent people who think their country should be in a better state

CommentJune 22, 2022
Gavin Esler
Boris Johnson was a major advocate for Britain's separation from the EU. Getty
Ignoring Brexit - and the PM making it worse - is not going to solve Britain's problems

The problems are everywhere, and the supposed benefits are hardly anywhere to be seen

CommentJune 15, 2022
Gavin Esler
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