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In an interview with the Associated Press, Woodward said the British government is feeling “gung ho” about preserving its economic and political position on the world stage, despite potential diplomatic setbacks created by its withdrawal from the bloc.  She argued that it was wrong to “underestimate” the UK’s relationship with …

The announcement came in a televised speech on Friday, with the Supreme Leader going as far as to suggest that London and Washington might be seeking to “contaminate” other countries with their anti-coronavirus solutions. Imports of US and British vaccines into the country are forbidden … They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s …

It seems the rich are even richer than we thought. Just in time for them, the lucky dears. For the rest of us, as we look into 2021, we’re staring unemployment, debt, and rent arrears and poverty in the face.  Without state intervention, hundreds of thousands of Britons will be …

Here we are again. After what was for many people a fraught and upsetting Christmas, and a revelry-free New Year, the UK is back in lockdown. It is slated to last until February, but without major dissent, the true end is not in sight.  Is Lockdown 3.0 ‘justified’? Is the …

Cometh the hour, cometh the men. Covid-19 has ravaged Britain and turned it into plague island, eliciting a little sympathy and some brickbats from around the world. It has Europe’s second-worst death toll, now at around 75,500, and while most other nations have ramped up travel regulations to stop the …

When Boris Johnson extended his open invitation to Hong Kongers to come and live in Britain as a grand humanitarian gesture towards those wishing to flee a Chinese crackdown, the world was a very different place. China was then the international bogeyman, blamed universally for the outbreak of Covid-19 and …

“Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the [Covid-19] variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK,” Governor Jared Polis tweeted on Tuesday, saying that it was found in a male patient in his 20s with no travel history. Colorado’s health authorities have not found any close contacts that …

Conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and delivered to the UK’s official SAGE [The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] advisory group late last week, the research notes that with a new coronavirus strain found to be “56% more transmissible” than other known variants, the country …

After nearly a year of contentious negotiations, the two parties produced a 2,000 page document which, at least for the time being, has garnered positive reviews on both sides of the Channel. While British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has perhaps been most vocal about his endorsement of the agreement, EU …

In the aftermath of the battle for a fair Brexit trade deal, there will be plenty of argument over who came out on top, but having spent 10 years in the boiler room of the campaign to extricate Britain from its membership of the European Union, my view is that …