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The British government, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced a major step forward Thursday in modernizing Britain’s armed forces by committing to increase defense spending by 24.1 billion pounds over the next four years. The British armed forces needed this help badly. Since 2000, when the world looked a lot less dangerous, British defense…

Even though he was removed from 21st-century geopolitics by two centuries, the French leader Napoleon Bonaparte prophetically foretold  of modern China’s rise on the world stage with his clairvoyant observation, “Let China sleep! For when he wakes, he will shake the world.” In the aftermath of the giant’s awakening, an ineffectual and befuddled West has…

A female information technology engineer in London, for whom doctors prescribed testosterone injections and a double mastectomy for her gender dysphoria, had her day in court this month against the gender clinic where she received treatment. At age 16, Keira Bell, now 23, went to Tavistock and Portman National Health Service Trust for help with…

As Edmund Burke explained in his famous speech on Anglo-American relations, “Speech on Conciliation with America,” the interests of Britain and those of the Americans were connected together by the harmonizing chords of commerce. He rests this position on his belief, as discussed in “Thoughts and Details on Scarcity” (his primary economic tract) and demonstrated…

On both sides of the Atlantic, advocates for transgender rights are increasingly substituting ideology for biological reality. But while here in the U.S. the Supreme Court last month was writing into Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act legal protections for people who identify as transgender that the authors of the law never intended,…

The first round of trade agreement talks between the U.S. and the United Kingdom took place online last month, with negotiators engaged in “positive and constructive” discussions in nearly 30 different groups, covering all aspects of a comprehensive trade agreement.  Negotiators concurred that the envisioned Free Trade Agreement—which has become more critical as the two…

It’s been a bad few days for the Communist Party-led government in Beijing in its efforts to gain economic and strategic influence in the United Kingdom and Europe. China’s flagship technology company, Huawei, is finding that its welcome mat is being taken away in London, the world’s biggest financial center, with major implications for its…

Evangelist and missionary Franklin Graham’s seven-city tour of the United Kingdom is now a trial, as all seven venues have dropped him. Graham’s canceled dates likely are due to an “an outcry over his homophobic and Islamophobic comments,” CNN reports. Although I don’t agree with everything Graham has said by any means, it’s disheartening to…

Britain’s House of Commons has voted to request a delay in Britain’s exit from the European Union. It’s like a kid who removes a Band-Aid slowly hoping it’ll hurt less. Far better to rip it off and be done with it. The people of the United Kingdom voted in June 2016 to leave the EU….

Though the last votes are still being counted, it is clear that Britain’s Conservatives have won an overall majority in Thursday’s general election. Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will be the largest party in Parliament and will be able to form a government that controls the House of Commons. The Conservatives have won…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is desperate to translate the British public’s June 2016 vote to leave the European Union into a concrete Brexit. But the real issue is far older and more important than whether 52% of Britain finally became understandably aggrieved by the increasingly anti-democratic and German-controlled European Union. England is an island….

Climate change activists from a group called Extinction Rebellion are threatening to fly drones over London’s Heathrow Airport with the goal of deliberately stopping all flights for a week. If their efforts were to succeed, the group could shut down the United Kingdom’s busiest airport and upward of a million travelers could be affected. There…

The resignation this week of the British ambassador to Washington has made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. Sir Kim Darroch resigned following the publication of leaked diplomatic cables that revealed he had been sharply critical of the Trump administration, calling it “inept” and “chaotic.” President Donald Trump condemned Darroch’s negative comments, prompting the…

Pollsters had heart palpitations in June 2016 as the people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. A dismayed media spouted speculative hysteria about the British economy that spread faster than a fire at a match factory. Three years after the June 23, 2016, referendum, however, the establishment in Westminster remains incapable of…

It’s not too much to call President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain, which concluded on Wednesday, a big success. The curious thing is that much of the American media went out of their way to ignore that fact. The New York Times stands in for a lot of the U.S. coverage. “Trump Insults London…

After watching sumo wrestling and tasting sushi in Japan, President Donald Trump is back stateside. But soon he will be on the road again for some statecraft in Britain and a historic visit to the Normandy beachheads of World War II. The last time Trump traveled to London the reception was noticeably chilly. The mayor was a…