The United Kingdom has never been a good fit in the European Union. It has never been a continental power. Since the 1707 Acts of Union it has been a proudly independent state. In 2016 then-Prime Minister David Cameron first…
Does anyone else remember when the United Kingdom had a foreign policy? Thanks to the bandwidth consumption of Britain’s divorce from the European Union, the UK has been conspicuously quiet on international affairs of late. While both Democrats and Republicans…
Tony Blair’s Labour Party — with its centralizing zeal — passed the Civil Contingencies Act in 2004, granting any British government the power to make 30-day-long decrees without having to rely on the House of Commons or the House of…
Two of Britain’s most prominent politicians have come under fire this week for supposedly promoting division and hatred. But for Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson, the circumstances surrounding their respective controversies have shared little else in common. Johnson, the former…
The challenge to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Britain’s Labour Party took an interesting turn yesterday when Angela Eagle dropped out of the race and threw her support behind fellow MP Owen Smith after Smith earned more support in ballots cast…
Yes, that’s right. Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition, actually compared Israel to ISIS. During a speech following a report seeking to stop the spread of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, Corbyn instead added fuel to the fire:…