Showing posts with label Britain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Britain. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2023

The U.K.'s Government-Run Healthcare Service Is in Crisis

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Is Britain's National Institute of Health held up as a model of compassionate, government-provided health care? It's often held up a...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Prince Harry, Spare

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At Amazon, Prince Harry, Spare: The Duke of Sussex .

Prince Harry's Bridge-Burner of a Memoir Signals a Bigger Royal Rift

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This is something. At the New York Times , " The self-exiled royal has given the world a warts-and-all look at his family — with an emp...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Liz Truss Fires Home Secretary Hours After Being Jeered in U.K. Parliament (VIDEO)

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This woman is in political trouble, man. At the New York Times , " Britain’s prime minister dismissed Suella Braverman after an email b...
Monday, October 3, 2022

The Tories' Weird Incoherent Collapse

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She's backtracking on her supply-side economic policy reforms. Not good for so new a prime minister.  More from Andrew Sullivan, "...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Bookends to the Life of a Queen (VIDEO)

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Queen Elizabeth II's funeral was today. At the New York Times , " From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and ...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Tina Brown, The Palace Papers

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At Amazon, Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil .

King Charles III Formally Proclaimed U.K. Monarch With Pomp and Ceremony (VIDEO)

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At the Wall Street Journal , " Ancient ceremony was first to be televised, draw together all living former prime ministers ": LOND...
Friday, September 9, 2022

King Charles' Television Address to the World (VIDEO)

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Very emotional and profound. At the BBC:  

In Conversations, Many Young Britons in London Called the Monarchy Increasingly Irrelevant

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By now, if you're even remotely attached to the news cycle, you heard word of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. I am a fan of the monar...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

Britain's Tavistock Scandal (VIDEO)

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Douglas Murray's at the video below. And at the New York Times  (the mainstream, noncontroversial take), " England Overhauls Medica...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Jonathan Pie: How Putin Weaponized London's Greed (VIDEO)

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Previously hilarious Jonathan Pie, " Boris Johnson, Under Fire, Apologizes for Pandemic Party (VIDEO) ."  And here he comes again:...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing

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At Amazon, Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland .
Friday, March 11, 2022

Roman Abramovich, Russian Oligarch, Hit by Sanctions

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This guy's getting slammed Chelsea's a diamond on the football world and the team plays in the Premier League, the top division in ...

European Union Countries More Reluctant to Cut Off Russian Energy Imports (VIDEO)

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Well, deal with the devil, you know? Look how that's turning out. Under Moscow's thumb. At Deutsche Welle , " European leaders ...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Can the West Save Kyiv Without Starting a War With Russia?

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 From Janice Gross Stein, at Foreign Affairs , " The Ukraine Dilemma ": In the months preceding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a...

Russian Airstrike Kills 3 at Maternity Hospital in Ukrainian Port City of Mariupol (VIDEO)

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CNN's first out with this report, " 3 dead after Mariupol maternity hospital bombing ." Below, Richard Engel had the story thi...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

'We'll fight in forests, fields, streets...': Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Quotes Shakespeare, Churchill in Speech to House of Commons (VIDEO)

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He's a master of mass-media communications. I thought I saw a couple of MPs crying at the video. From yesterday, at the New York Times ,...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Boris Johnson, Under Fire, Apologizes for Pandemic Party (VIDEO)

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I meant to post this earlier, at the New York Times , " The British prime minister, on the defensive after a series of ethical lapses, ...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

Tracy Borman, Crown & Sceptre

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At Amazon, Tracy Borman, Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II .