Tag: United Kingdom

The Chinese leader's decision to extend his term limits is a signal of what's to come.

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China’s Xi Jinping doubles down on his post-American new world order

Tom Rogan · February 26, 2018 5:18 pm

President Trump was referring to a massive "NHS in Crisis: Fix It Now" protest that occurred on Feb. 3 in London. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

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Trump is right: The UK’s NHS is failing and more money won’t save it

Sally Pipes · February 26, 2018 4:02 pm

If Jeremy Corbyn wins, the special relationship has a break.

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Why Jeremy Corbyn hates America and how he pursues that hatred

Tom Rogan · February 22, 2018 6:17 pm

British and then American officials blamed Russia for the cyberattacks on Ukraine's financial system, which took place in June 2017, in a pair of statements last week. The Russian Foreign Ministry replied in a bulletin: "As the saying goes, 'liar, liar, pants on fire.'" (iStock)

Russia denies carrying out cyberattack against Ukraine

Joel Gehrke · February 21, 2018 10:49 pm

In a column for the Daily Mail, talk show host Piers Morgan said of former "Apprentice" co-star and ex-White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, "I've never met anyone quite so relentlessly loathsome." (screenshot)

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If Piers Morgan and Omarosa were nations at war, who would win?

Tom Rogan · February 14, 2018 11:00 am

Rep. Mike Conaway's measure currently has 15 cosponsors, most of whom sit on the Intelligence or Armed Services committees, or both. Three were added in the past few days.

Lawmakers spar over how much to punish Chinese firms

Charlie Mitchell · February 13, 2018 5:01 am

This Jan. 12, 2018 photo shows a general view of the Cabinet room at the Churchill War Rooms in London, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018. The Map room, Cabinet room and other places that visitors can see at the Churchill War Rooms museum were recreated by set designers for "Darkest Hour," which tells the story of British politics during World War II under Winston Churchill. The War Rooms museum is one of a number of real places featured in this year's Oscar-nominated films. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Trump wants to see Winston Churchill’s underground ‘war rooms’: Report

Naomi Lim · February 12, 2018 11:15 pm

British charity Oxfam's deputy chief executive on Monday resigned amid a scandal involving sex abuse in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
(Nick Ansell/PA via AP, file)

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Don’t condemn Oxfam for their sexual abuse, condemn them because they want to keep poor people in poverty

Tim Worstall · February 12, 2018 10:19 pm

Unilever owns Dove, Lipton and Ben & Jerry's, and has a yearly marketing budget of $9.8 billion. (iStock by Google Images)

Unilever warns it will pull ads from Google, Facebook due to spread of fake news, extremist content

Melissa Quinn · February 12, 2018 4:57 pm

George Soros is entitled to push whatever interests he wants. And we conservatives should be magnanimous enough to accept that not every cause he has backed is wrong. Sure, a lot of them are: He seems obsessed with building up undemocratic supranational structures. But he has also given money to undermine Communist states, as well as to alleviate poverty in Africa. (Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)

In defense of George Soros

Dan Hannan · February 12, 2018 5:01 am

Thursday's strikes on training camps in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border region were carried out by a U.S. B-52 long-range heavy bomber, which used precision weapons to take out three separate camps. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Meet ETIM, the terrorist group the US just bombed in Afghanistan

Jamie McIntyre · February 10, 2018 5:01 am

British judge Emma Arbuthnot told lawyers, journalists, and Assange supporters at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court that she would uphold an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (pictured above), according to a report. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Judge upholds Julian Assange arrest warrant

Mandy Mayfield · February 6, 2018 7:03 pm