I just purchased “free airmiles” tickets to the UK for my wife, our two children, and myself. These free tickets actually cost over $2000. The vast majority of this money is for European climate levies.
The cost made me think about climate...
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After debuting at No. 1 in multiple countries with their critically acclaimed new album, We Are Not Your Kind, Slipknot have announced a 2020 UK and Europe tour with support from Behemoth.
The six-week tour kicks off January 14th in Dublin, Ireland,...
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Blighty not even on track for legally binding 2023-2032 levels Electronic cars will not help the UK government meet its carbon emissions target, with MPs warning people will have to ditch their cars entirely.…
Young Eastern Europeans living in England and Scotland have experienced more racism and xenophobia since the Brexit vote, with some saying that teachers were failing to protect them, research says.
Weekly Briefing: Boris Johnson challenges the EU on the backstopThis is the fourth of a series of weekly briefings Open Europe will publish analysing key Brexit, UK and EU developments.The post Weekly Briefing: Boris Johnson challenges the EU on the...
At a moment that Iran and the US/UK are effectively already at war on the open seas in an ongoing "tanker war," Tehran is set to unveil a new Iran-manufactured long range air-defense missile system which could rival Russia's S-300...
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Tottenham’s Georges-Kevin Nkoudou received an awkward greeting after arriving at an airport in Istanbul ahead of a switch to Besiktas. According to Football London, the 24-year-old is expected...
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UK Labour Strips Pro-Palestinian Journalist's Credentials; California Passes Policing Bill; Yusuf Hawkins Documentary Coming Soon
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The as-yet-unconfirmed rumours emerged days before the G7 summit in France, where US president Donald Trump will meet UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Trump administration has placed travel restrictions on residents of Somali and Somaliland, and...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Building more homes will do little to rein in soaring UK housing prices as long as there are not enough subsidies for first-time buyers and young families, a non-profit set up by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said in its...
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Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, mankind has been intend on taking on bigger and bigger civil engineering projects. Motorways, railways, bridges and tunnels have spread from Europe and North America to Asia and now Africa and Latin...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his German counterpart Angela Merkel will hold talks today, regarding the UK’s impending departure from the EU. But will Germany’s very own iron lady be pleased by the former Mayor of London’s demands...
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Donald Trump has again spoken out in support of Russia's readmission to the Group of Seven. American researcher and author Dr George Szamuely discussed what impact the US president's words could have on the rest of the G7.
Related topics: Russia, Italy, Germany, Canada, France, Donald Trump
Economic uncertainty has seen the pound lose ground against other major currencies due to ongoing uncertainty over the UK's future trading relationship with the European Union while continental European economies have been hit by growing political...
A “blistering timetable” indeed, as Boris Johnson observed, considering his Tories haven’t come up with a plan to leave the Irish border open for the past three years. The UK’s prime minister acknowledged as much in their...
The Economist raised eyebrows this week while promoting an article about the benefits of people rising out of poverty and being able to afford meat, after suggesting that such progress "is bad news for the environment."What are the details?The...
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Global Heritage Fund will honor the inspirational women protecting heritage at its upcoming "Women Leaders in World Heritage" event at historic St James's Palace in London.
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Matthew Petti
Security, Middle East
London is paying the price for America's problems.
Authorities in Gibraltar have released an Iranian oil tanker they had been holding since July 4, breaking the ice around a long diplomatic standoff between Iran...
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Climate change activists from a group called Extinction Rebellion are threatening to fly drones over London’s Heathrow Airport with the goal of deliberately stopping all flights for a week.
If their efforts were to succeed, the group could...
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Here we go again.
In what sounds like a repeat of the soundbites from early this year, the French government has once again declared that the UK leaving the EU without a withdrawal agreement is now its 'base case' scenario.
That's according to an...
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