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On Good Friday morning last week, I sat in the communal waiting area of Terminal 3 at Manchester Airport — it is the worst in the UK in my opinion — and listened to the heavily accented lilt of a grandfather from Belfast as he travelled somewhere or another with his two sons and their th...
No one does historical drama like the British Broadcasting Corporation, and right now, there is a remarkable new adaptation of Great Expectations underway. It stars Olivia Coleman as Lady Havisham, perhaps one of the most enduring characters ever created by Charles Dickens.Without giving anything aw...
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London, Britain, March 22, 2023. Image Credit: ReutersEach week, the Current Affairs team of the British Broadcasting Corporation, visit a different town or city up and down the four corners of the United Kingdom, for its weekly Question Time programme....
Time. Everything to do with the European Union takes time. Nothing happens quickly. And by its very nature, getting all 27 members of the block to agree to new initiatives or programmes is a long and slow process. Even time itself is time-consuming.In the early hours of the last Sunday in March, Eur...
Football is like faith to the Brits. Every weekend, close to a million or so go to the temples of soccer to pay homage to their heroes, praying for the right result. And then, on a Saturday night, as if for a second round of adulation, millions more tune into Match of the Day.It is a ritual that I h...
So, the hospitals in the United Kingdom are broken. If you break a bone, for example, all of the follow-up visits are done over the telephone. And how, you may very well ask, can a doctor examine the healing of both ends of a bone over a telephone?No, I don’t know the answer to that one either...
Boris Johnson. It’s a name that elicits either feelings of profound admiration or criticism. There is no middle ground. He is Marmite of the masses — you either love or loathe him.Soon, the pastiche, the aura, the charm, the veneer of invincibility of the man who got Brexit done will be ...
On Tuesday morning, the headlines on the front pages across the United Kingdom and Ireland — and much of the rest of the European Union too — were celebrating to a varying degree the reset in relations between London and Brussels in finding a way forward and making Brexit better.Sure, th...
There is one word that I have come to loathe over the past decade. Brexit. Honestly, even typing those six letters cause anger to pulse in my veins.I think I might actually need therapy.I keep copies of everything I write and file. And checking my records, I have written 3,742 articles — this ...
Over the past 15 years, the very utterance of the phrase ‘Scottish independence’ has been inextricably linked to the voice and image of Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister and leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party in their inseparable quest for separation.That she decided to suddenly ...
In Dublin recently, as I walked the bustling city centre, there was a small gathering outside the General Post Office.The GPO, on the main thoroughfare O’Connell Street, is a historic building, and back in April 1916, was the headquarters for Irish Republican Army fighters who failed in their ...
If there is a soundtrack to the current events in the United Kingdom, if would almost certainly be Frank Sinatra’s My Way. It just seems so apt.Why? Well, for starters, no one but the British can take the blame for the current economic mess they are now deeply mired within.Take the HS2 project...
Rod Stewart is a pop star who takes more enjoyment nowadays from playing with his vast model railway set-up than he does from taking to the stage in front of thousands of screaming fans.He’s made his money and at 78 years of age, yes, his hips don’t lie. He hasn’t quite got the swa...
Quietly, with little fanfare, unnoticed generally given the events that are dominating the headlines focused on Ukraine and affect much of Europe, Leo Varadkar took over the helm of the Irish coalition government, succeeding Michéal Martin as Taoiseach — pronounced Tee-shock, and transl...
There is nothing worse than watching a football match that has a lopsided result and you’re waiting for that final whistle to be blown.Nothing anyone can do on the losing side can change the reality that you’ve been at the wrong end of a shellacking and are down 5-0. And that whistle can...
On Thursday last, a winter storm blew in across the Atlantic, dropping copious amounts of rain on the sodden fields of Britain. The further north I drove, heading to Edinburgh, the worse the driving conditions became.By 4:30pm, when the cold darkness of early January truly set in, the borderlands an...
One of the unique characteristics of the European Union is that every six months, the chair of the European Council changes — allowing a roll-call of the 27 EU nation states to, in theory at least, set the political agenda.The European Council is, in effect, the collective political leadership...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warmed upto EU and pledged to give support for the bloc’s actions on Ukraine war, energy crisis and inflationImage Credit: Gulf NewsChristmas Day marks three months since Italian voters took a sharp right turn and handed the Brother of Italy and others...
On Thursday evening, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak flew into Belfast, his first visit there as the leader of the United Kingdom and the man theoretically responsible for holding the four separate nations together.Scotland has already made the legal case — and lost — for holding a se...
Whitehaven is, as they would say in rural places in the UK, “the back of beyond”. You’d only ever get there if you were going there. It’s on the end of the road, a good 60 kilometres to the northwest off the main M6 highway that heads from Birmingham, England’s second l...
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