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At its height, the British Empire was the world's most powerful empire. By 1921, the empire had enslaved roughly a quarter of the world's people and controlled nearly a quarter of the world's land area.
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How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron to lead an internal review designed to inform and improve the government’s understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The UK has a critical role to play in countering aggression. Chinese leaders love to use the phrase ‘win-win’, but they actually hope to win twice and leave other nations in positions of relative disadvantage. The Chinese Communist party’s behavior during the COVID-19 crisis is a case in point. In the midst of the global …
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Britain will ban Huawei equipment from the country’s high-speed 5G network, the government said Tuesday, delivering a victory to the Trump administration, which has been pushing allies to eschew the Chinese technology giant. The British government announced it would bar the purchase of new Huawei equipment for 5G networks beginning in December and ordered existing …
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WORLD WAR 3 tensions are at an all time high between China and the UK after the former threatened Britain with “corresponding measures” amid its condemnation of new security laws in Hong Kong. Yet, it isn’t the first time China has issued such a threat, with Beijing warning that it would take “hostile action” against …
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Dominic Cummings, the top adviser to British prime minister Boris Johnson and a key player in Brexit, argued that he “behaved reasonably” in driving 260 miles to his parents’ home, despite being exposed to his wife’s coronavirus-like symptoms. “I’m not surprised many people are very angry,” Cummings said in a Monday press conference. “I don’t …
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You’ve heard her name. You might even have seen a film about her. But do you know the whole story of Margaret Thatcher – where she came from, what she stood for, and the impact she had on Great Britain and the world? Renowned historian Niall Ferguson explains how the Iron Lady earned her status …
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U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson credited the care of the National Health Service (NHS) with saving his life after a week in the hospital spent battling COVID-19, admitting that “things could have gone either way” in his first public comments since being discharged from the hospital. “I have today left hospital after a week in …
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, the respiratory illness that continues to spread in Britain and around the globe, he announced Friday. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus,” Johnson wrote in a Friday morning tweet. “I am now self-isolating, but I will continue …
At its height, the British Empire was the world's most powerful empire. By 1921, the empire had enslaved roughly a quarter of the world's people and controlled nearly a quarter of the world's land area.
