If you listen to UKIP, you could be forgiven for thinking migrants are coming to Britain to access our foolishly generous welfare benefits and care nothing for integration.
But that’s simply not true…
Sorry captain, I thought the big red button made it go faster.
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The Coalition government is pressing ahead with a long, expensive and controversial programme to replace the Trident nuclear weapon system beginning with the procurement of a new fleet of submarines armed…
Plotting an escape from the naughty step.
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Recent news that David Cameron has been placed on the naughty step by China after his meeting with the Dalai Lama caused much concern in UK business circles.
Reports suggested the Chinese sovereign wealth…
I’ve seen the future Nick, and it’s behind us.
Stefan Wermuth
Compromise. It’s one of those Jekyll and Hyde verbs. Used actively, it’s a good thing – you want something; I want something different; we talk it over; we come to an arrangement; we compromise.
Used…
On the noes: more than 100 Tory MPs voted for an amendment to the Queen’s Speech last night in a huge rebuff to the PM on Europe.
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When more than 100 Conservative MPs vote for an amendment to their own government’s Queen’s Speech, it is more than a rebellion – it is historically unprecedented.
And despite David Cameron’s insistence…
The Falkland Island may be cold, windswept and remote, but they retain major geo—political importance and this weekend’s referendum on sovereignty will define the relationship between the UK and Argentina for years to come.
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History is about to be made on the Falkland Islands, which holds its first official sovereignty referendum this weekend. Some 1,600 Islanders will be asked whether they wish to retain their current political…
David Cameron’s 2006 campaign to “vote blue, go green” was discarded under a double dip recession – but could he now pick up on Obama’s State of the Union lead?
In Wednesday’s state of the union address, US President Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet to Congress on climate change action – and in the process, cemented the re-prioritisation of the issue which…
The European question: British PM David Cameron has put it to the public to decide whether Britain should stay in the EU.
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The threatened renegotiation of Britain’s place in the European Union is considered by many to be a gamble for the UK. Forty years after the UK’s entry into the European Economic Community, this declaration…
The EU faces more than just a debt crisis.
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You can’t join a football club and then ask to play rugby. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius summed up negative reaction to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech about the EU on “the Continent…
British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised the electorate an “in or out” referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU by 2017.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced an “in/out” referendum for UK voters on European Union (EU) membership, scheduled for 2017.
There were few surprises in this, as the full text of his…
The response to Leveson is less about media regulation and more about politics.
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The good Lord Leveson has certainly set the cat among both the press and political pigeons. His elegantly crafted proposal for establishing a self-regulatory regime for the press, backed by statutory under…
Families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have never given up their campaign for justice.
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The release of Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report into the death of 96 football fans at the 1989 FA Cup Semi Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest is not just a landmark in British history…
The Olympics won’t have an effect on sport participation after the fact unless time and money are properly invested.
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This is an edited version of a letter sent to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and a number of other officials with connections to the London Olympics.
Dear Prime Minister,
I have spent the past two weeks…
Rupert Murdoch arrives at the Leveson Inquiry in London last week.
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
Actor Hugh Grant said it as well as anyone in an interview with ABC News a while back. All that was needed to end the UK’s decades-long culture of tolerance for News International’s phone-hacking, its…
First Minister Alex Salmond could be the man who regained Scotland’s independence.
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Scotland has always been a distinct nation but since the Act of Union in 1707, it has been a nation within a larger political entity: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The election…
British Prime Minister David Cameron can’t escape domestic politics when it comes to Europe.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to veto the new European Union agreement for greater financial stability in the Eurozone reminds us that despite the talk of greater European integration…
A shop in Manchester city centre boarded after being attacked by looters.
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By Robert Ralphs, Manchester Metropolitan University
The recent riots in major English cities like London have seen the media focus on the involvement of young people.
In particular, many media outlets have claimed that organised youth gangs have orchestrated…
The final edition of the News of the World carried a full page apology to its readers.
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The dramatic events around the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s London News of the World are unprecedented in a major news media organisation in an advanced industrial country. A newspaper closed…
