The UK is going through a stage of New Boring, says Stuart Jefferies — think watching Downtown Abbey, wearing pencil skirts and loafers and listening to the sweet sounds of Adele — and he is not amused.
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Who sold Gaddafi his guns?
Arms sales to Libya in the five years proceeding the recent conflict came mostly came from European nations, including Italy ($432m), Serbia ($67m), and the UK ($57m), reports NAJ Taylor.
Climate change a ‘grave threat’ to health and security
Over in the UK, researchers examining the health and security implications of climate change are finding some worrying results. Think mass migration and humanitarian crisis, reports Melissa Sweet.
The beautiful, bare occupation of Wall Street and Westminster Bridge
Occupy Wall Street looks like a reversion to an older pattern; for there is no more a “Wall Street” than there is a “Hollywood”; it’s another tourist street, with a statue of a bull, some Doric columns and a US flag.
From the Tory front line: London in a catflap
You have to admire a certain kind of British wit, that steers a scandal involving a feline, from gaining the suffix “-gate”, becoming instead “catflap”. Guy Rundle reports on the Tory party conference from London.
podcast Canberra Calling: The I can’t believe Blackberrys are cool podcast
Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey editor Sophie Black talk about the UK riots, the role of social media and the global economy.
London riots: it’s a class war
Why are young people in London burning police cars and looting local shops? It’s a protest against a middle class Britain that has ignored its unemployed and angry brethren, explains Mary Riddell.
Guy Rundle: The madness of Assange’s third extradition hearing
Two justices, representing the near-pinnacle of English law have spent a more than a day considering the details of two one-night stands and a tackle rub undertaken nearly a year ago in a faraway city.
Rundle: a moral and operational disaster for News Corp
When the time for a real moral decision came along, News International had lost any governance — and no-one could decide not to cross the line, and not hack the phone of the family of Milly Dowler, a missing schoolgirl.
travel Daytripping down Kent way
From the cliffs of Dover to wandering the Turner Contemporary, a day trip to Kent is a perfect antidote to busy London, writes Nicola Heath. But don’t expect flowerly English villages: pints, tattoos and dogs bred for fighting appeared to be order of the day.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The trouble of Facebook and kids
Crikey reads have their say.
Ryan Giggs picks the wrong tens of thousands of people to fight
A British soccer player started legal action against Twitter to keep his affair secret. It doesn’t look such a smart move 30,000 tweets later …
How do you halve emissions by 2025? Look to the UK…
The United Kingdom is set to become a world leader on clean energy and climate policy, after announcing an ambitious plan to halve carbon emissions by 2025, reports Amber Jamieson.
Peter the Wild Boy? More like Peter the Disabled Child
More than 200 years ago, a crazed child found wandering naked through a German forest was adopted as a pet — complete with collar — by King George I. But scientists have just unearthed that ‘Peter the Wild Boy’ suffered from a rare genetic condition.
Britain gets its referendum
It took until the last possible day, but overnight the British government finally got approval for its legislation for a referendum on preferential voting.
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Ed Miliband the Awkward
UK Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband seems to always have an air of awkward around him, thanks to his big cartoon-like eyes and penchant for grimacing. Check out this blog chronicling his gawkiness.
Rundle: a book that marks the end of Blair, all echo and no conscience
“You know, I of course I feel sorrow for the people who have died, how could you not…” God, there it was again, that voice, pouring out of the radio at 6:30 in the morning, as one of the last sunny days began outside. Tony Blair back from the shadowlands of post-priministerial life, and right […]
VIDEO: UK PM condemns Bloody Sunday
UK PM David Cameron offers a a heartfelt official apology to the victims — and their families — of the Bloody Sunday massacre, condemning the actions of the British soldiers involved.
Justice for Bloody Sunday victims
Thirty-eight years after the infamous ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre, the official investigation found British soldiers were completely to blame for slaughtering 13 unarmed people in Northern Ireland.
Why Britain should completely cut its armed forces
Britain spends £45 billion annually on Defence against “fantasy enemies”, says Simon Jenkins. Soldiers are no protection against terrorists.
We barged into Afghanistan without a clue
British military chiefs are now coming out against the decision to send 3,000 British troops into Afghanistan back in 2004, saying poor advice was given and now hundreds of lives have been lost/
So long merry England
After nearly a year living in England, Rafiq Copeland reminisces over the traditions he’s going to miss. Like, fish pie, old shop keepers in Devon and brown historical plaques on everything.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: are these the most passive, fatalistic people on the planet?
Are these the most passive, fatalistic people on the planet? asks Guy Rundle of the British. Maybe it’s because the bad stuff is so ever-present, and the good stuff can often recede from view.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s UK: Channel Four sting cuts to Labour’s hollow core
Three former UK cabinet ministers have been suspended from the Labour Party, after secretly-taped footage showed them talking openly about the possibility of using their contacts and influence for paying clients.
Sex, swearing and support: the modern political wife
MP wives are no longer well-dressed doormats there to look after the house and support the husband. As the UK election heats up, The Guardian takes a look at the swearing, affairs having, debaucherous new UK political wives.
