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9 votes
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Diplomats from Finland have a unique way of engaging with people – will the UK warm to naked sauna diplomacy?
4 votes -
Supreme court rules against Scottish parliament holding new independence referendum
9 votes -
Rishi Sunak to become first British Asian PM as Penny Mordaunt bows out
13 votes -
Liz Truss to be next UK Prime Minister
12 votes -
Boris Johnson, the UK's embattled prime minister, announced he's resigning
35 votes -
Scottish independence: 19 October 2023 proposed as date for referendum
9 votes -
UK has reached an agreement with Norway and the EU over how to divide fish stocks in the North Sea next year
6 votes -
Jailed for fifty-one weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth
18 votes -
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers leave the city to accept British citizenship
29 votes -
Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans
7 votes -
UK and Norway have failed to reach a fishing deal for this year, with the industry warning that hundreds of crew members will be left out of work
8 votes -
Keir Starmer struggles to counter Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine bounce’ as UK polls loom
5 votes -
Peace in Northern Ireland is fragile
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20 A useful thread:...
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20
A useful thread: https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379869873787002887?s=20
This is 1) heart-breaking and 2) very, very, worrying.
14 votes -
‘Stories are chosen due to editorial merit’ and ‘newsworthy updates’ - BBC
6 votes -
Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
12 votes -
UK voters might regret Brexit, but most of them don't feel like reversing it anymore
9 votes -
Norway may stop British and EU vessels fishing in its waters from January 1st – talks held up by London's protracted Brexit standoff with Brussels
8 votes -
Is the UK moving towards government by decree?
6 votes -
Boris Johnson's new Brexit trade advisor is former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott
10 votes -
Britain should not quake before Xi Jinping: China has already peaked and faces economic stagnation
7 votes -
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells European Union workers to come back, but must quarantine
12 votes -
Boris Johnson says three million people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship
7 votes -
UK may offer citizenship path to three million Hong Kong residents
9 votes -
Dominic Cummings' statement, a guided tour
6 votes -
The crisis within conservatism: Since the 80s, the right has increasingly relied on media bubbles, wedge issues, resistance to social change and making electoral participation harder to hold power
7 votes -
What would the effects of a breakup of the UK be and how likely is that to happen?
6 votes -
The UK Labour party has a new leader: Keir Starmer
12 votes -
Choppy waters of Brexit threaten Danish fishing – after Brexit the UK is taking control of its exclusive economic zone, stretching up to 200 nautical miles offshore
7 votes -
There's a dark side to Boris Johnson's government, and even his allies are fed up with it
12 votes -
Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pekko Haavisto, says the crisis over Brexit could have a beneficial effect on the European Union, pulling the bloc together
11 votes -
Handbook on countering Russian and Chinese interference in Europe
14 votes -
UK Parliament gives final backing to Withdrawal Agreement bill, UK is due to leave EU on January 31 with eleven-month transition period
24 votes -
David Edgerton: "Boris Johnson might break up the UK. That’s a good thing."
11 votes -
I’ve studied the ‘weirdos’ Dominic Cummings is talking about – I’m not sure he really understands who they are
14 votes -
Exit poll suggests Conservatives are set to win an overall majority of eighty-six in the UK general election
33 votes -
Scotland's UK election results deliver another independence mandate, says First Minister
13 votes -
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are a revolutionary sect and should be understood as such
7 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
12 votes -
Secret UK documents show NHS for sale in Donald Trump Brexit trade talks: Corbyn
13 votes -
Labour's spending plans aren't especially unusual – just look at Sweden
5 votes -
"Children and Politics" - a 3 minute interview with British children before the 1964 general election
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously...
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously as humans.
EDIT: Somehow I missed the main link, which goes to a BFI page here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-children-and-politics-1964-online
There are some amazing old (1960s, 1970s) British tv interviews with children carried out by Harold Williamson. He asks children a question and then just lets them answer. There's no attempt to laugh at the children, and there's no attempt to say "zomg look at what this cute kid is saying".
A few clips here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b and there are probably more on Youtube: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b
It's showing its age - "what would you do if your husbands went on strike? How would you run a household?" (asked of two girls) isn't acceptable.
7 votes -
UK Parliament approves snap general election on Dec. 12
18 votes -
What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long.
4 votes -
After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools in the UK, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
8 votes -
Proroging UK parliament was unlawful
The UK Supreme Court just ruled that the prorogation of parliament was unlawful, which means it didn't happen. https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2019-0193.html...
The UK Supreme Court just ruled that the prorogation of parliament was unlawful, which means it didn't happen.
https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2019-0193.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49810261
This is a pretty big deal.
It's hard to see how Johnson can continue as PM.
28 votes -
Brexit: Operation Yellowhammer no-deal document published
16 votes -
Brexit: Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful
17 votes -
Uncertainty about US President Donald Trump's trade war with China and Brexit are creating a "flying blind" economy
5 votes -
Britain's parliament approves law seeking to block October no-deal Brexit
15 votes