UK

It is a brief hot summer of far right thuggery, Elon, not a British civil war  

UK Harvey Morris - August 7, 2024.

It is scarcely a month since overseas commentators were patiently explaining to their audiences how it was that UK voters had bucked a far-right trend...

UK’s economic choices already bedevil the Starmerite age

UK Harvey Morris - July 31, 2024.

Political honeymoons rarely last long and the UK government faces some early pushback after Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled the tough choices required to fill a...

Trouble in paradise presents new UK government with diplomatic conundrum

UK Harvey Morris - July 24, 2024.

The fate of refugees stranded on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia has drawn fresh attention to an unresolved anomaly of Britain’s post-colonial...

Hard-pressed British urged to spare a thought for millionaires

UK Harvey Morris - July 17, 2024.

The aftermath of a long-awaited general election, coupled with the England football team’s ultimately thwarted advance through the Euros, inevitably eclipsed recent apocalytic headlines that...

Undoing Brexit, at best the beginning of the beginning

UK Ferry Biedermann - July 12, 2024.

The European Union and the UK are in for many years of extraordinarily careful and wrought manoeuvring to rebuild even a shadow of what was...

UK government’s world role depends on progress on the home front

UK Harvey Morris - July 10, 2024.

There was a genuine note of optimism among the messages of congratulations that are routinely dispatched from abroad to incoming political leaders as prime minister...

Triumphant Labour eyes investment boost as it goes for growth

UK Harvey Morris - July 5, 2024.

The Labour party has secured a landslide victory in a UK general election that saw a nationwide rejection of its Conservative rival after 14 years...

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