• Some arresting images of the healing power of culture have emerged this year from a small city in Northern Ireland. Derry-Londonderry -- the residents argue over what to call it -- is a location where the Troubles began, a conflict that lasted a quarter of a century

  • Following the hacking death of a British soldier by two alleged Islamic extremists, Prime Minister David Cameron said, 'There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.' Winston Churchill thought otherwise

  • When it comes to thinking up the brightest ideas in the world, the light bulb always seems to be blazing above an American head. The British, in contrast, rarely seem to make an impact. If they do come up with something, it tends to be the grand historical narrative

  • When the news of Margaret Thatcher's death broke, I went back to the archives of National Review to look at what William F. Buckley had to say about her when she was a fresh face. Dismissing the skeptics, Buckley was impressed by her personal story

  • Margaret Thatcher never cared much for feminists and other progressive equal-rights movements. Yet she deserves to be honored by those of us who do, whether we like the result of her politics or not

  • There is a story about Margaret Thatcher, which is probably apocryphal, but speaks volumes about the strength of Great Britain's first female prime minister, who died at age 87

  • It is a time of tension in East Asia with growing nationalism, territorial claims between Japan and its neighbours and the persistent challenge of a nuclear North Korea

  • The United Kingdom could set an attractive precedent as it tries to disentangle itself from European Union affairs. There is a faction within the ruling Conservative Party that believes the UK should abandon the European Union entirely

  • The internet has been an unprecedented engine for global development on every level. But there is a darker side to it, and the Government believes it is time to shine a strong light on those shadows

  • Nearly every step towards total union has revealed still more of the inherent factors of disunity in Europe and has dramatized how distant 'Europe' has become from the simple and lucid ambitions of its origins

  • Some of those caught looting stores in Britain during the recent riots were asked why they did it. Four teenagers explained to Sky News that they viewed it as 'a shopping spree.' One teen blamed the government

  • One year into office, foreign policy is unexpectedly proving a defining theme of Britain's coalition government. Faced with economic austerity at home and geopolitical uncertainty abroad, the challenge has been to match ambitions to changing realities  

  • One of liberalism's many problems is that once an idea or program is proved wrong and unworkable, liberals rarely acknowledge their mistake and examine the root cause of their error so they don't repeat it. Take multiculturalism ... please!

  • The temperature is way up in London with the decision of the government of Ecuador to grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum

  • To mend broken Britain we need to rediscover the Victorian trick of spreading wealth

  • Great Britain has spent the last 20 years defining its place not in the world in general but between continental Europe and the United States in particular

  • A once civil and orderly England was recently torn apart by rioting and looting -- at first by mostly minority youth, but eventually also by young Brits in general

  • One of the most original thinkers on global strategy and technology discusses the future of the nation state, the focus of British foreign policy and how good can emerge from crisis

  • The snowballing global campaign against corporate greed has reached Europe, particularly the capital cities of London and Rome

  • However kindly you look at it, the United Kingdom's economy is broken and so are significant parts of our society. How worried should we be? Just over twenty years after that infamous 'end of history' and triumph of western capitalism moment, have we now reached the nemesis point?

  • Britain plans to shut down the family access immigration route in a bid to reduce the number of migrants entering the United Kingdom outside the European Union.

  • Slapstick was a suitable accompaniment to the statements by Rupert and James Murdoch to a parliamentary committee in London, and to Prime Minister David Cameron's performance in the House of Commons concerning the intimate relations that exist between News International's London newspapers and the present British government

  • Recently, I was asked to talk upon the theme of 'handling big contradictions,' especially on the international political and economic levels of decision-making. I was happy to oblige, because this is something I have been thinking about a lot, as I observe our leaders and policy-makers grappling with problems for which there is no obvious and easy solution

  • In place of the drift that we see in Great Britain's relationship with the European Union, British politicians should start to think and act strategically

  • The Green Party has connected saving the planet with social justice and fairness. These are the causes that I find inspiring and I was happy to discover that many Londoners agree with me

  • The falling standard of living, coupled with the economic slowdown and government reduction of tax breaks and social benefits, will lead to 3 million children in the United Kingdom living in poverty by 2013, the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast

  • Some politicians and commentators have dismissed the recent British riots as pure criminality. But they ignore the politics at their own risk

  • One touch of a button. One group e-mail. One Facebook post. And boom! Everyone knows everything. Or everyone is in one place. The ability to rally followers with a single post has shown its dark side, with the recent events in London and other places

  • Consider this an obituary for a newspaper. The suddenly late News of the World succumbed at 168 this month to a fatal case of shame aggravated by financial calculation. Its chronic hubris became acute under its latest owner, who has not been free of that malady himself.

  • The British have borrowed one of the most popular American political institutions by holding a series of televised debates among their three candidates for prime minister. It appears to have been a success, at least in heightening public interest in the race.

  • On my last visit to the UK three months ago, Members of Parliament were embroiled in a scandal involving outrageous expense claims for such things as moat cleaning, a baby crib and second homes that were sometimes occupied by friends and relatives, or not at all