Britain
Welcome to the London lockdown
July 18, 2012Parliament is moving center-stage as crises of private-sector greed and incompetence are laid before select committees.
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Britain’s crimes of empire revealed
April 19, 2012The government belatedly released secret files dating back to British colonial rule in Kenya, Malaya and elsewhere that were once claimed to have been lost.
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UK fracking firms face surge of protests
April 18, 2012News that a gas extraction process which triggered two earthquakes is likely to resume brought a surge of protest bubbling to the surface on Tuesday.
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Britain’s Morning Star feels no joy on queen’s anniversary
February 8, 2012Defenders of the status quo assert that the monarchy is largely symbolic or even little more than a tourist attraction, but its residual powers are real, extensive and undemocratic.
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UK: 2 million strike to save their pensions
December 1, 2011Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow.
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