The English question now isn’t about Reform or party politics: it’s the rage that means we can’t talk to each other any more | John Harris

My time in Lincolnshire highlighted our country’s most serious problem: the disconnection that means solutions can’t be reachedIt was unseasonably hot in Alford, Lincolnshire, and the early evening had brought a contented glow to the main street and residential avenues of this quiet market town. Colin Matthews, a genial former schoolteacher, was putting in another shift trying to convince people to give him another term as a local Conservative councillor and marvelling at the outbrea