Time is running out to "save the United Kingdom," more than forty local leaders in England have warned Boris Johnson.

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.

The tiny village of Brunsmark, an hour outside Hamburg in the lush north German countryside, might seem an unlikely spot to suffer a sudden Brexit shock.

In a quiet corner of northern Germany there is a small community where a Scotsman is in charge.

Billionaire media mogul says it is ‘hard to understand why a country doing so well wanted to ruin it’.