Who Funds European NGOs?
The answer is simple: the EU does. The TaxPayers’ Alliance, a British group that is genuinely independent of government, points to two recent EU missives… Read More
The answer is simple: the EU does. The TaxPayers’ Alliance, a British group that is genuinely independent of government, points to two recent EU missives… Read More
The newly-elected Mayor of the English town of Doncaster, Peter Davies, has a very curious idea: the purpose of government is not to propagandize its… Read More
Last week, we noted that a set of slides summing up an internal report from Britain’s Ministry of Defense on defense procurement that had been… Read More
The Telegraph reports: Family told by NHS: Alzheimer’s is not a ‘health condition’ NHS Worcestershire ruled that Judith Roe, 74, did not qualify for NHS… Read More
A set of slides summing up an internal report from Britain’s Ministry of Defense on defense procurement have found their way to the BBC. The… Read More
The Telegraph reports: The Government’s plans to increase the proportion of Britain’s energy generated by “green” sources is set to cost between 11 and 17… Read More
As Britain embarks on its first defense review since 1998, both press and official comments continue to hint that spending cuts are in the offing…. Read More
The International Monetary Fund has just published its annual “Staff Report” on Britain’s economy. It makes for grim reading. The IMF projects that Britain’s national… Read More
On Tuesday, the British Government announced that it is beginning a process that will lead to a Defense Review in 2010. The review will take… Read More
The British Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a “Strategic Security Review.” The IPPR is not just any think tank: in the 1990s,… Read More
In a small, but hugely significant move, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron, has formally constituted a new parliamentary grouping in the European Parliament…. Read More
Since 1999, the Labour Government in Britain has been on a spending spree of historic proportions. Actually, it’s been on two of them. From 1999… Read More
The administration recently released its Treaty Priority List, designating the treaties for which it supports – and those for which it does not support –… Read More
The polls said it would be bad for Labour. But no one expected it to be this bad. On Thursday, Britons voted in local county… Read More
LONDON – Britain is going to the polls today in a double-barreled election: for local councils, and to send representatives to the European Parliament. It’s… Read More
Here’s good news for a Friday: the planning committee of the Westminster City Council in London has given its approval for the placement of a… Read More
The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom Director Nile Gardiner responds to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs anti-British press tirade in today’s Telegraph:… Read More
After furious diplomatic exchanges between the French and British governments, reports are emerging that Queen Elizabeth II — the only reigning monarch to have actively… Read More
In a recent, high-profile article, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband stated that the Conservative Party’s European policy, which advocates Britain’s sovereignty and independence as a… Read More
Yesterday, a British court ruled that the European Convention on Human Rights, which was written into British law by the Blair government’s 1998 Human Rights… Read More
The recession is hitting hard in Britain. Unemployment has hit a 13 year high, at 2.2 million, and the last quarter saw the biggest rise… Read More
British Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague recently announced that a future Conservative Government is likely to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, even if… Read More
The Institute for Economic Affairs, the prestigious British think-tank, has released a comprehensive, two hundred page long, study of the causes of the financial crash…. Read More
Earlier today we noted that a recent MIT study showed that cap and trade energy tax proposals would cost the average American household $3,900 per… Read More
Earlier this week, we pointed out that, under President Barack Obama, the dependency of the states on the federal government has reached a threatening and… Read More
Last week, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling presented the budget for 2009-10. The news for Britain’s hard-pressed armed forces was grim. Labour’s record… Read More
A wonderful story from Britain illustrates all the problems with the over-active, snooping state. First, the facts. The Broadland District Council in Norfolk hired a… Read More
The war against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is the direct result of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Those attacks resulted in NATO invoking… Read More
The credit crunch is hitting Washington, DC, as Uncle Sam maxes out his credit cards. In addition to the enormously costly Obama budget, all the… Read More
President Obama’s administration just can’t leave well enough alone. First, it couldn’t manage to be respectful to Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of Great Britain,… Read More
