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The well-heeled are just as likely to unseat politicians they don’t like as the hard-up. And their votes matter more. Or so it seems after the July 4 UK general election and the big pay-off for the Liberal Democrats. The Reform UK party led by Nigel Farage won 14 per cent of the votes cast […]

Nigel Farage was elected to Parliament on July 5th and he received congratulations from former president Trump but no kudos or well wishes at all were given by Trump to the UK’s new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Farage’s Reform UK Party which is anti-immigration got the third largest vote but Starmer’s Labour Party had a […]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry greeted Labour’s victory in the UK elections with the hope of getting the Sino-British relationship moving on the right track. The ministry didn’t mention—though it no doubt remembered—that the new British prime minister Keir Starmer wanted Britain to be “weaned off” China only a year ago. A year is a long […]

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is the new British Prime Minister after the Tories suffered their worst defeat in the July 4 general election. “We did it! Change begins now,” Starmer said in his victory speech after the Labour landslide ending 14 years of Tory rule. The outgoing Conservative prime minister, Rishi Sunak, conceded the […]

When Queen Marie Antoinette of France was  told the peasants were starving and had no bread, she allegedly said: “Let them eat cake.” Now critics are claiming the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said something just as silly. Asked what he had to sacrifice as a child, Sunak, a multimillionaire richer than King Charles, said […]

In a recent interview with Sky News, retired British intelligence officer Sir Richard Dearlove raised concerns about the potential re-election of former President Donald Trump, citing it as a “security risk” that could undermine the United Kingdom’s national interests. Dearlove, who served as the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1999 to 2004, […]

Clutching bags of purchases, sounds of hundreds of people moving around, people rummaging in stores, and a long queue of bargain hunters. At first glance, it appeared as though everything had returned to the pre-pandemic days on Boxing Day, when trouble had not yet struck paradise. But everything, like they say, is not always what […]

Are you heading to London, perhaps, to make the most of your remaining vacation days?  Are you going to see the London Eye, the Tower of London, or Westminster Abbey? Or, are you on your way to the Warner Bros. Studios with your kids to see the famous Harry Potter sets?  By now, you’ve probably […]

When the previous administration introduced the Rwanda Bill in 2022, the Labour Party immediately denounced the plan. The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, in particular, criticized it, saying that the plan was ‘unworkable’ and ‘extortionate’ for taxpayers. Starmer claimed at the time that the bill would cost the taxpayers billions of pounds and that it was […]

In a bid to reduce carbon emissions and help mitigate climate change, the UK legally bound itself to reach net zero emissions by 2050. And since homes and non-residential buildings account for 30% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from energy used to heat the home and hot water, phasing out fossil fuel broilers was […]

Earlier this month, the current leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, expressed his desire to challenge the Tories in the upcoming 2024 election and added that its former leader, Nigel Farage, could possibly help them win the fight.  He stated that Farage has shown the public through the reality TV show that he’s in touch […]

It’s fairly easy to point one’s fingers at the government when crises emerge one after another. After all, it is their responsibility to look after their citizens. In the UK’s case, however, where members of Parliament seek to represent the public, air out their concerns, and decide what’s best for the country, it presents a […]

One of Britain’s most beloved inventors, James Dyson, did not hold back in criticizing the Tories after seeing UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall by 0.1%, as reported by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). While inflation was reported to have improved and significantly decreased to 3.9%, the same could not be said for the […]

Christmas is supposed to be a season of joy, relaxation, and merriment. I mean, surely the joyous spirit of the holidays will instill optimism in every home, even those with incomplete family members? Well, the latest figures implied otherwise. Just before the clock strikes twelve and everybody greets everybody a ‘Happy Christmas’, the Office for […]