A.G. Hopkins

A.G. Hopkins is the Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, and the author of The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot.

Sep

‘Oh, the empire of course’

Feature: Why does nothing in the United Kingdom seem to work? A.G. Hopkins on the decades of self-inflicted wounds that have hollowed out the British state.

23 Sep 2026

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