Tag: Britain

When U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to Washington at the end of 1943, he could barely work. The strain of two years of continuous war leadership had been too ...

If it weren’t for an overlap of appointments at a San Francisco art dealership, we might never have the cache of extraordinary films—43 in all—made by Merchant Ivory Productions from ...

Britain is burning. The recent weeks of far-right riots have seen mobs assembling outside mosques and hotels housing asylum-seekers; the burning of public libraries; and an uptick in targeted racist ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the role of nuclear weapons has only grown. Nuclear arsenals are being strengthened around the world, with many nuclear states continuing to modernize their ...

A little over two years ago, Steve Okeke, 34, quit his job as a store manager in Nigeria and moved to United Kingdom in search of a better life. Six ...

The far-right violence against foreigners in the United Kingdom these days strongly reminds me of a novel published in the 1980s: J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. The far-right violence ...

“The muddy depths are being stirred by new monsters and witches from the deep,” Gore Vidal once wrote of the resurgence of the far right in the United States. In ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s big plans for the United Kingdom, a searing heat wave in Ukraine, and cyanide poisonings in ...

Two weeks on from the most crushing defeat in its 190-year history, the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party is poised between reinvention and decline. The party is, in a sense, completely ...

Britain’s Labour Party won 411 seats in the House of Commons in the July 4 national election. It was the country’s biggest landslide victory since Tony Blair first took office ...