"Britain" Blogs & Blog Posts

I recently took a whirlwind, thirty-six hour visit to Edinburgh to see my university friends Nic and Sarah who were visiting from South Africa. I flew up on the Tuesday morning from London City Airport and returned, thirty-six thousand steps later, o...

Construction on India’s mag­nificent Amber Fort began in 1592 by Mahar­aja Man Singh, a commander in the army of the Mughal emperor Akbar. It was built so the Mughal ruler could spread his power to cover the king­doms of Udaipur and Jodh­pur. S...

Britain's 14-year Conservative government (in coalition with feckless Liberal Democrats for its first term and with the support of an Ulster cult for its third) is likely to come to an end in two weeks, with polls anticipating a large Labour majority...

The UK's governing Conservatives can count on only one in five voters to support them in next month's general election—a loss of about four percentage points over a brief yet unexpectedly repulsive campaign. The Labour party is now all but certain...

With a general election imminent, the UK's far-right Reform party stormed the polls after Brexiteer Nigel Farage assumed its leadership and the governing Conservatives imploded on the campaign trail. Some even suggested that Reform could eat the Cons...

English and German fans crowd outside the turnstilesWhite Hart Lane, 1935History TodayDespite the War To End All Wars/WW1 and despite tension rising between the countries, Brit­ain maintained st­rong links with Germany; visits between sports clubs...

Jon Benjamin, the British ambassador to Mexico, thought it would be funny or something if he pointed a semiautomatic rifle at one of his staffers. The moment, on a trip to a violence-stricken region, was captured on video and posted to social media.