Tag: UK

"It is an insult, don't say that, say Hmong, as we call ourselves," the man speaking with me said.

200 Veterans Exposed to Asbestos Before 1987 'Denied Compensation' Under Current Rule

200 Veterans Exposed to Asbestos Before 1987 'Denied Compensation' Under Current Rule

UK foreign Secretary William Hague continues to surpass himself.

Earlier this month an MP got up in the House of Commons and proposed that the UK government outlaw, or "proscribe", the whole Hezbollah organisation, not just its military wing.

I am not sure whether he intended to or not but Olufisayo Ogundimo may have helped to make legal history.

A few weeks ago YouGov, with the European Parliament in mind and using two different methods, put support for UKIP at between 17% and 19%. So the Conservatives are under pressure while the LibDems (on a measly 8%) are set to lose badly.

A Liberal Democrat MP in the UK, David Ward, is in hot water for his "use of language" in condemning Israelis for atrocities against the Palestinians while the horrors of their own suffering at the hands of the Nazis were still fresh in their memory.

Alistair Burt is the UK Foreign Office minister in charge of Middle East affairs. He is also a former officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel lobby group.

We want our politicians and political life to be liberated of Zionist power. We want our parties to be free of their MacShanes.

For once I am in complete agreement with Piers Morgan. Straussy, Giles Clarke and Hugh Morris at ECB and the selectors have bungled this badly. Clarke and Morris need to resign for the sake of English cricket and Strauss should step down as captain.

Jenny Tonge’s goodbye to the Liberal Democrats has been a long time coming. She’s well rid of them…

Eventually but not surprisingly, Britain capitulated to an urging demand long wished for and much desired by the Royal family to silence Press TV in the UK thanks to the unflagging efforts of the servile media supervisory office known as Ofcom.

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has had many of his articles published by in the mainstream press over the past 15 years. Over the past few weeks however, all mainstream press outlets (including the supposedly 'liberal' ones) that were contacted with a view to publishing this particular piece refused to do so, for unspecified reasons.

A newly married couple forced to live on £57 a week killed themselves in despair after being 'abandoned' by social services, their friends claimed yesterday.

Israel could – and should – have apologized in a full-hearted manner, but in a way that neither humiliated nor embarrassed them. Once the apology had been issued, and then accepted by Turkey, both countries would have had a platform for the restoration of normal relations.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was so alarmed, and furious over Captain Simon Hayward's draft manuscript, Under Fire: My Own Story, scheduled for publication in September 1989, that she went berserk.

The former boss of MI5 has said Iraq was a "distraction" that posed no threat to the UK when Tony Blair took the country to war.

It’s not a democracy when a realm is controlled by an unelected power broker with enforcers who run the government for another country.

David Cameron was today facing renewed pressure over the phone-hacking scandal as the spotlight shifts onto him following the sensational resignation of Britain's top policeman.

Rare show of common resolve as MPs prepare to call for News Corp to drop BSkyB takeover bid. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband met in private to discuss the terms of reference of a public inquiry into the scandal.

Churchill, in his Battle of Britain speech 71 years ago, said: "If we can stand up to him [Hitler], all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) has issued a press release to remind everyone of that what promises to be the largest flotilla yet, comprising 15 ships carrying passengers from 12 European states as well as Latin America, Africa, Asia, Canada and the United States, is due to sail for Gaza in late May.

Depleted Uranium use since Operation Desert Storm is not just a health issue for Gulf War Veterans in the US but all coalition forces and endemic populations that are left to deal with the affects for billions of years. This is an international issue that has seen the UN and WHO involved.