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So, along the border of Ukraine, where Belarus and Russia proper provide the frontiers to the northeast and east, there are columns of tanks waiting in the frozen steppe. There, where East meets West, the fallout from the Cold War could soon turn hot suddenly, casting Europe into a very dangerous an...
So, it all comes down to this. The colourful and charismatic career of Boris Johnson will be determined once and for all in a very factual black-and-white report from a senior civil servant charged with investigating a culture of carousing and carefree contravention of Covid rules.Sue Gray’s r...
When more than one person comes together at a bus stop or in a store in Britain, the unwritten etiquette is that there is then a queue – the most British of social inventions. Anthropologists might indeed argue that the queue is the most basic unit, perhaps so nowadays when the definition of f...
Cladding, which was supposed to fire resistant, has been used to shield thousands of buildings up and down Britain. The Grenville fire tragedy of five years ago, where a high-rise building in Kensington borough went up in flames and killed 72 people, made it abundantly clear that the building materi...
Most tourists who have ever headed to France regard the Eiffel Tower as the figurative centre of the city, the must-see attraction for the inimitable selfie of the steel structure to share with friends on social media.Yes, the tower is certainly iconic, but most Parisiennes point to the Arc de Triom...
So, how was the last 12 months for you? Certainly, it was an unusual year, one where coronavirus still lingered and eased — but then along came Omicron. In Europe, where Omicron cases are soaring and it is by far the most dominant and contagious strain, with lockdowns and travel limitations be...
Mick O'ReillyThis is a Christmas that Boris Johnson would rather forget. With three months of never-ending sleaze scandals, poorly perceived announcements and being caught in a snare of statements over whether or not Covid rules were flaunted by the UK Prime Minister and his staff, there is litt...
On Sunday, I drove across north Shropshire, a largely rural corner of England that sites to the north and west of Birmingham and straddles the border with Wales. The clouds were heavy with rain and, in low-lying fields where beef cattle grazed or sheep cast not a wanting eye on passing traffic, wate...
On Dec. 18 last, 594 people died from Covid 19 in the United Kingdom. That was three days into a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson — a set of rules that meant that families of those who had died could not attend hospital to say a final farewell.Families up and dow...
If you stand on the top of the White Cliffs in the very southeast corner of Kent and look across the Straits of Dover, it is possible to see the outline of the Pas de Calais in France.The distance as the crow flies is only 30 kilometres. The fastest swimmer to make the crossing did it in a shade und...
More than two decades ago, before the new millennium was to dawn, the internet wasn’t quite walking but certainly wasn’t in its infancy, and computing was mostly mainstream, we were still trying to come to grips with this brave new future.Social engineers promised us that, in the future,...
If you were to look up the term “midterm blues” in a dictionary of political terminology, the definition might very well include a photo of the United Kingdom Prime minister, Boris Johnson right now — and the image might show him sitting rumpled in a children’s fairground rid...
For the past 22 months, the lives of most ordinary Britons have been consumed by the events of the pandemic. Merely keeping health, worrying about loved ones, making sure there was a job or at least the means to make ends meet, was a constant worry for most folks.Thankfully, the United Kingdom was t...
If there is one thing that is predictable with the government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson it is the lack of clarity on Brexit.It may be a matter of time before the Johnson government pulls the plug on the Brexit deal it negotiated with the European Union, saying that the Northern Ireland...
It’s a month now since German voters cast their ballots in a federal election and only now, more than four weeks later, it is becoming clear just who will lead Europe’s largest economy for the next four years.The parliament, or Bundestag, formally met for the first time on Tuesday, putti...
If you’re finding it hard to stay away from Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, don’t worry — you are not alone. Half of the people on this planet, some 3.5 billion people, are regular users of the three platforms. Indeed, many are addicted to Facebook and Instagram — and the pe...
Last week, as I headed into Santander in Northern Spain to take a ferry to England, vehicles with British registration plates were patiently queuing up at petrol stations, topping up with fuel before disembarking the next day at Plymouth and heading off in a land that by all accounts was running sca...
Boring. That’s the word that had been most often used by political colleagues and analysts alike to describe Olaf Scholz, the man who is most likely now to become the next Chancellor of Germany. And in the coming weeks as he tries to hammer out a coalition deal with the Greens and Liberals to ...
It wasn’t supposed to be this easy. Six months ago, there was little hope that the leader of Germany’s Social Democrats would become the nation’s replacement for retiring chancellor Angela Merkel. But with a week to go before some 60.4 million Germans are eligible to vote in a fede...
There are few politicians who survive long after announcing tax increases and, since Tuesday, Britons now face paying the highest taxes on their incomes than at any time since the Second World War.Whether this general tenet of politics holds true in the case of Boris Johnson remains to be seen. But ...
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