Visiting the headquarters of the FBI in Washington on May 13, David Cameron inspected the Strategic Information and Operations Center, a fifth-floor suite of offices established, as a helpful official explained, to facilitate …
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Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral: Protesters and Supporters Line Procession Route
When Paul Dooley was a police officer in the 1980s, he faced off against striking coal miners in the north of England. And although many in Britain at the time were highly critical of the tactics used by the police—there were …
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Falkland Islanders went to stay under British rule, Spaniards are abandoning their horses as they struggle to make ends meet and China agrees to talks with U.S. over cyber hacking
Is the Falkland Islands’ Referendum a Farce or a Landmark Moment?
When asked about her identity, Laura Jayne Minto Ceballos, a 19-year-old Falkland Islander studying in the U.K., has a less than straightforward answer. Her father’s family hails from Scotland and her Chilean mother was born in …
British Member of Parliament Walks Out of Debate Against Israeli Student
The British MP George Galloway walked out of a debate at Oxford University on Wednesday evening when he discovered that his opponent was an Israeli citizen
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A rights group says migrant workers at the Sochi Olympic construction sites are exploited, the U.K. is the world’s top land-grabber and Iran releases footage of a missing U.S. drone
Belfast’s Flag Protests Stir Up Troubles Old and New
For nearly seven weeks, protesters wrapped in British flags have taken to Belfast’s streets. Anger has erupted in the Northern Ireland capital ever since a group of city-council politicians decided on Dec. 3 to restrict the …
Stay Classy: Britain’s Newest Scandal Is All About The Country’s Oldest Obsession
Some years just don’t know when they’re over and 2012 seems determined to squeeze one more scandal out of Britain’s beleaguered establishment. Like #hackgate, the saga that last year led Rupert Murdoch to close down his Sunday tabloid News of the World, or #duckgate, the revelations in 2009 that some MPs and peers padded their …
Must-Reads from Around the World, June 11, 2012
Must reads for June 11: What will Spain’s bailout really achieve? Who killed Li Wangyang? And will any of Mexico’s presidential hopefuls solve the country’s bloody narco crisis?
Must-Reads from Around the World, June 8, 2012
Internal Democracy — The South China Morning Post reports that senior members of the Communist Party held an internal poll in May to select their favored top leaders for the party’s 25-member Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee, its inner-most cabinet, for the next 10 years. It writes: “If this experiment goes well and …
After the Diamond Jubilee: Time to Hand Over the Diamond
Dear Queen Elizabeth II: Congratulations on your Diamond Jubilee. But now it’s time for you to hand over the diamond.
Breaking from the U.K.: Is an Independent Scotland Feasible?
Leveson Inquiry: Will British MP Jeremy Hunt Be Another Casualty of the Hacking Scandal?
British Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt has been caught in the rip tide of the phone-hacking scandal, as his former advisor Adam Smith and a News Corp. lobbyist Frederic Michel testify at the Leveson inquiry. How did the once rising …