Website to trace Brits in crises

This is interesting, it's a new sevice launched by teh UK Foreign Office to track British citizens if they're abroad during an emergency, so friends and family can see if they're ok. The effort has been given new impetus as several British tourists went missing during the...

Downloading More Than Ever Before, Brits Care Less About Getting Caught

"The Brits are downloading more free music than ever before and are less concerned about getting caught than they were last year. Why are they going to download even more next year? 91% say: “Because it’s free!”"

Heathrow airport tries to ban the Queen and 5 MILLION Brits from its premises

This seems a bit silly...you can't really set out an injunction against using ANY KIND OF INFRASTRUCTURE!"The British Airports Authority is seeking an injunction to keep The Camp for Climate Action from protesting at London's Heathrow airport -- an injunction that would ban...

The Wacky World of Norman Podhoretz: Where there's always another world war b...

"People tend to stay fixated on the best time of their lives, and in the case of the neocons, that was undoubtedly the Cold War era. It is therefore no surprise that, with the coming of the "war on terrorism," they have likened the enemy, as Norman Podhoretz puts it in his...

Magnaninmous Mahmoud byPatrick Buchanan

"The Easter pardon by Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the 15 British sailors and Marines, seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in waters off the Iraqi coast two weeks ago, ends the crisis. And as the beaming smile of President Ahmadinejad while he graciously accepted...

Behind the Denials: Iranians and Brits Traded Prisoners by Patrick Cockburn

"The stand-off over the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran ended with a de facto prisoner exchange, despite denials by Britain and Iran that a swap was intended."

24 Reasons To Get A Passport

"Everybody flying into the U.S. needs a passport now, and that definitely includes us foreigners who are residents of the Relatively Peaceable Dominion. Before long, everybody entering the U.S. by any means – land, sea, or through the tunnel at Windsor – will need...