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UK risks further divergence from EU amid looming trade and defence tensions

UK Ferry Biedermann - April 10, 2025.

The looming Trump trade war has once again laid bare the fallacy of a UK-EU rapprochement on the things that really matter. The UK government,...

UK-US free speech wrinkle has less to do with pro-life zealots than with zealous tech bros

UK Harvey Morris - April 9, 2025.

“No free trade without free speech.” That was the stark warning from an unnamed US insider that any special deal between Washington and London would...

British TV drama targets toxic online influence on youth crime

UK Harvey Morris - April 2, 2025.

A British television drama series highlighting online manipulation driving young men and boys towards violence against girls has sparked a national debate in the UK. Sociologists,...

UK-led Ukraine coalition is still willing despite US’s latest pro-Putin tilt

UK Harvey Morris - March 26, 2025.

Ukraine’s European allies will meet again this week to fine-tune their role in a coalition of the willing to protect a potential ceasefire with Russia...

Tinkering at the edges will not salvage Britain’s welfare state

UK Harvey Morris - March 19, 2025.

Faced with changing spending priorities in a sluggish economy, the UK government is set on a cost-cutting programme that critics fear could further undermine the...

Is it time to ditch the eternal quest to define the English?

UK Harvey Morris - March 12, 2025.

How English are you? A question that might sound like a tiebreaker in a pub quiz - “Bad luck. The answer we were looking for is...

Can Britain help to head off Trump’s Ukraine ‘surrender’?

UK Harvey Morris - March 5, 2025.

Britain’s normally fractious House of Commons this week lavished cross-party praise on Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his deft diplomatic handling of the transatlantic crisis...

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