The United Kingdom’s latest push to abrogate its divorce deal with Europe and run roughshod over regional autonomy is renewing the urge of some restive British nations for independence—notably Scotland, ...
Britain’s messy exit from the European Union came crashing back into the headlines this week with an apparent head-on assault by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the terms of ...
If London and Brussels don’t reach a deal by October, the U.K. will be ready to accept this and “move on,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to say Monday. ...
One of the curveball side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has prompted a renaissance in rave culture. In the U.K., young people have been gathering in secret to ...
John Hume, a Nobel Peace laureate and giant of Irish politics, died on Monday, leaving behind a towering legacy. The longtime leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), ...
LONDON — As the days tick away to the end of the post-Brexit transition period in December it’s all starting to feel very 2019. The U.K. government is preparing for the ...
Peter Geoghegan is investigations editor at openDemocracy and the author of “Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics” (August 2020, Head of Zeus). LONDON — Scandals about money in ...
LONDON — The U.K. has “poisoned the atmosphere” of its relations with China and is putting the post-Brexit vision of “Global Britain” at risk by “decoupling” from Beijing, the Chinese ...
LONDON — The Brexit drama’s second season is following a familiar script. As the fifth round of talks came to a close Thursday, both sides admitted they were still a ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration closes the Chinese consulate in Houston, the U.K. government strengthens its rhetoric on abuses in Xinjiang, and floods in ...
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