The US government has officially ended its legal fight against an upcoming expedition to the Titanic shipwreck after the company that owns the ship’s salvage rights scaled back its dive plans. But the US said in court filings last week that it may wage court battles over future expeditions if they break a federal law...
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Is Britain the world’s most self-loathing nation?
Even Britain’s pensioners, a generation you might expect to be more pragmatic, seem to regard our treasures with short shrift – which might explain why two octogenarians launched an attack on a Magna Carta exhibition at the British Library in May. Food British food is so often disparaged by continental Europeans and Americans alike as...
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Black Country singing sensation announces first ever UK solo tour
Now 23, Connie stole the hearts of the region – and the broader British public – aged just six with her cover of Somewhere Over The Rainbow in the 2007 series of the reality contest, coming second place to opera singer Paul Potts. Connie’s debut album, Over the Rainbow, was released back in the same...
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Labour party set for landslide win in UK election | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
People across the United Kingdom are going to the polls. They have seen voters elsewhere shift to the right. However, after 14 years, they are expected to throw their Conservative government out of power. Candidates in 650 constituencies are running on Thursday for a seat in the House of Commons. Those in the party that...
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General election 2024 polls: Latest UK tracker
A month of frenzied campaigning has passed since Rishi Sunak fired the starting gun on a July general election, with tomorrow’s vote looming, time has all but run out for his party to engineer a desperately needed reversal in fortune if they are to remain in power. Labour has been comfortably ahead in the polls...
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Ed Miliband’s ‘fantasy eco plans’ will create tens of thousands more jobs in China than in Britain, Tories warn
Labour seeks a huge boost in eco energy, but critics say it will be ‘made in China’ By Martin Beckford Published: 00:29 BST, 3 July 2024 | Updated: 00:36 BST, 3 July 2024 Ed Miliband’s ‘fantasy eco plans’ will create tens of thousands more jobs in China than in the UK, senior Tories claimed last night....
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Tory Remainers are the authors of their party’s defeat
The oddity of European politics is that Britain is moving sharply to the Left while most of the Continent is moving even further to the Right. In Britain, young people and even the middle aged are abandoning Conservatism. Elsewhere in Europe, the young are the pillars of a radical Right-wing upsurge. On the Continent, the...
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Donald Trump is going to turn Starmer’s Britain into an international laughing stock
Grandfather Robert Blackstock, a retired engineer from Nottinghamshire, became the “Brenda from Bristol” of this election campaign when he asked Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer during Wednesday night’s TV debate: “Are you two really the best we’ve got to be the next prime minister of our great country?” Like the woman who responded to Theresa...
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Summer travel chaos as Gatwick contends with passenger diversions and looming strikes
Disruption this summer is also expected as a result of the threat of delays and cancellations amid a shortage of air traffic control (ATC) staff. Ryanair has already scrapped dozens of flights after a shortfall in controllers at a major Dutch ATC centre left planes out of position and unable to perform morning departures. Meanwhile,...
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Emperor, Empress wrap UK visit with stop at Oxford | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako have wrapped up a trip to Britain with a stop in Oxford, where they both studied in their youth. The couple toured the grounds of Balliol College on Friday. The Empress studied there for two years during her time working with the Foreign Ministry. The Emperor previously said that...
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South Korea is running out of children – and Britain could be next
For South Korea’s kindergarten teachers, the national dearth of children due is already painfully evident and impacting their career prospects. The country’s record-low birth rates are projected to cause the closure of roughly one-third of daycare centres and kindergartens by 2028, a report by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education warned in January....
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Armageddon is upon us, and Britain will never be the same again
Make the most of living in Conservative Britain: Armageddon is upon us. In a little over a week, the Tory government – that last, oh-so-imperfect, infuriatingly porous roadblock to Left-wing hegemony – will have been obliterated. The removal vans, symbols of regime change, will be on their way. Parliament, the last major institution in Britain...