Violence and fear travel swiftly, and faster still in the era of tweets and status updates and 24-hour rolling news. Just after 2 p.m. on May 22, police answered a call to an incident in Woolwich, southeast London. A 25-year-old …
David Cameron has a reputation for taking things easy. He plays games on his iPad; he revels in family life; an anonymous friend told his biographers Francis Elliott and James Hanning that “if there was an Olympic gold medal for …
Promotional campaigns are all about optics and symbolism, so it’s safe to assume that the organizers of the May 14 “Britain is Great” event in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District hadn’t noticed a large sign proclaiming “Prince …
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 …
Often what British royals do is far more consequential than what they say. At today’s State Opening of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth II will read out her government’s agenda for the coming session, this time expected to include …
The United Kingdom Independence Party is just one of many small, burgeoning movements across Europe that’s challenging the Union-centric status quo
Europe’s monarchs, when they do their jobs well, can still provide a focus of national unity
No matter how grand a funeral, there is no hiding from its principal message, and the grand funeral of Margaret Thatcher communicated that message more starkly than most. It was not only that the Iron Lady had succumbed, after …
Decades after she left office, the former Prime Minister provokes as much outrage as she does admiration. But there is little doubt that she transformed Britain
The new U.S. Secretary of State set off alarm bells in London over his comments regarding the U.K.’s disputed possession of the Falkland Islands
If coverage of David Cameron’s dramatic, pivotal speech on Britain and the European Union seems grudging, that may in part reflect the extraordinary sequences of mishaps and misadventures that preceded it. Early plans to hold …
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 …
The roots of the drama that closed a newspaper, toppled a top government official, launched multiple investigations and has seen 15 suspects charged with crimes ranging from conspiracy to unlawfully intercept communications to …
