Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain.
• You won’t know James Bevan, but you should know what he did to this country• Boris Johnson wrecked Britain. But this man left even deeper scars• The hardcore socialist whose ruinous idea is why Liz Truss became PM• Martin Lewis: the money-saving expert… who accidentally cost Britons billions• The American woman who ripped the heart out of Cadbury• The shadowy maverick who pulled Labour’s strings… and sunk Starmer• Steven Bartlett: the glorified PR man quietly making Britain worse• The Tory who sold off Britain’s greatest assets – then told us to take back control
Dua Lipa has made mediocrity unbearable, and the ordinary feel like failure. In doing so, she has accidentally broken Britain.
With ready access to Lipa’s enviable social media feed from the phone in their pocket, young people think they can have it all – if they only they manifest hard enough. They are disappointed time and time again.
Lipa has won three Grammy Awards, and was the first female artist to have five songs reach over two billion streams on Spotify. But it’s really the 30-year-old singer’s cultural cachet and influence that sets her apart. She has the biggest Instagram follower count of any British celebrity, even greater than David Beckham – broadcasting life updates, promotions and book recommendations to 88.5 million followers.
