

The manufactured “controversy” I discussed on this site previously, about a schoolboy Nigel Farage allegedly saying Jews smell of poo about fifty years ago or something, ...

A strange new phenomenon is taking place in U.K. skies. Paralyzed Indians are flying into the country needing wheelchairs and then quite happily springing up and walking away from ...

Did you ever call another child rude names when you were at school? If so, a future career in politics may no longer be open to you. The Prime Minister of the Allegedly United ...

Suffering from the worst approval ratings for the nation’s leader since numbers were invented, Britain’s malfunctioning android of a prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, went ...

On the night of the U.K. general election, I was on the phone with someone working for the campaigning MP Andrew Bridgen as the first two ballot boxes were opened at his count, ...

Imagine being stabbed by a man with a big knife, who then offered to sell you some handy bandages at half price, before expecting you to be grateful for it. Here in the U.K., that ...

When is winning an election also simultaneously to lose it? According to most pundits, this week’s July 4 General Election here in the U.K. is due to be a complete Labour ...

I feel like Diogenes, the Ancient Greek who walked about sunny Athens with a lamp looking for an honest man. And I have found one in Nigel Farage, certainly the last politician ...

What’s your definition of bravery? Rushing into a burning building to save a sizzling baby? Holding off an entire platoon of soldiers from capturing your lonely position ...

There have been many legendary comments made in the House of Commons, the primary legislative chamber of the United Kingdom, and Sir Winston Churchill is responsible for many of ...

Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, British prime minister Boris Johnson is creating his enemies by ending their careers. Actually, the two share much in common, both having changed their ...

Britain’s international relations have acquired something of Paris in the spring of 1871. Having achieved a lightning defeat at the hands of Prussia, the inhabitants of the ...

William Gladstone, the great Victorian Liberal leader, the most successful electoral politician of the age, believed that success in politics depended on right timing. This was ...

It's important to restrict the power of government"any government. In Britain this used to be the task of Parliament, especially the House of Commons. Government was the ...

"The whole worl" is in a state o" chassis," says a character in a Sean O"Casey play. By "chassis" he meant "chaos," but "chassis," ...

In his op-ed in The Washington Post, Chris Grayling, leader of the House of Commons, made the case for British withdrawal from the European Union—in terms Americans can ...