Tag: United Kingdom

Perhaps the most sexist car insurance company I never heard of until today, Sheilas' Wheels in Britain, unveiled last week its ideal highway -- with bright pink-painted lanes just for the ladies. (Courtesy photo)

Beltway Confidential

Don’t let American feminists or comedians see this

Ashe Schow · August 18, 2014 6:53 pm

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has promisedÃÂ to reform Italy's employment law but failed to do so. (AP/Antonio Calanni)

Beltway Confidential

The inevitable and tragic decline of Italy

Michael Barone · August 18, 2014 4:51 pm

Polls show close race month before Scotland vote

Washington Examiner · August 17, 2014 7:21 pm

UK councils field weird queries on dragons, ghosts

Washington Examiner · August 16, 2014 8:58 am

Europe Grapples With Its Homegrown Jihadists

Josh Cohen · August 15, 2014 5:48 pm

UK police search singer Cliff Richard’s house

Sylvia Hui · August 14, 2014 1:10 pm

UK woman convicted of funding terrorism in Syria

Washington Examiner · August 13, 2014 4:23 pm

Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney speaks during the bank's quarterly inflation report news conference at the Bank of England, in London, Wednesday Aug. 13, 2014. The Bank of England has modestly upgraded it growth forecast for the U.K. this year but cautioned over the failure of wages to keep pace with the projected expansion. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, Pool)

Bank of England cautions on UK wage growth

Danica Kirka · August 13, 2014 11:48 am

In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Iraq-Syria border at Feeshkhabour bridge over Tigris River at Feeshkhabour border point, northern Iraq. Kurdish authorities at the border believe some 45,000 Yazidis passed the river crossing in the past week and thousands more are still stranded in the mountains. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

UK warns of humanitarian crisis in Iraq

Danica Kirka · August 11, 2014 6:13 pm

Georg Ludwig, installed as King George I, spoke no English and communicated with ministers in French, the language of European courts. He had shut his wife up in a German castle and brought over two mistresses, one fat and one skinny, and gave them titles of nobility. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Three hundred years later, Americans owe a debt to King George I

Michael Barone · August 10, 2014 9:00 pm

A banner encouraging people suffering from Ebola to go immediately to a health center for treatment is seen on a sidewalk in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. While the Ebola virus outbreak has now reached four countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone account for more than 60 percent of the deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The outbreak that emerged in March has claimed at least 932 lives. (AP Photo/Michael Duff)

Britain pledges new funding to contain Ebola

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2014 6:11 pm

Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, has announced that he will run for a seat in Parliament in the election scheduled for May 2015.ÃÂ (Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

A political game-changer in Britain: Boris Johnson is running for Parliament

Michael Barone · August 6, 2014 6:55 pm