Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigApr 22, 2015
Figures regarding the United Kingdom's recovering finances fail to account for drastic growth in the number of British citizens resorting to emergency food banks just to get by. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 19, 2015
Cancer and end-of-life services relied on by some 3.8 million beneficiaries of the British National Health Service may be sold off to private U.S. health care companies that will be free to restructure the services along lines of profitability rather than quality of care. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigFeb 26, 2015
Why a political party in the United Kingdom thought it wise to paint a bus pink to attract female voters is hard to understand. But at least it gave the "Last Week Tonight" host material for a humorous segment about "the Barbie bus." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigOct 14, 2014
There are 650 members of the British parliament, so the vote Monday by 271 of them to recognize Palestine is hardly an overwhelming victory for supporters of this position. However, the symbolic impact of the vote is quite large. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigSep 24, 2014
Speaking at the United Kingdom's Labour Party conference Wednesday in what seems like poetic verse, the nearly century-old Harry Smith recalls his youth in the tenements of England, the "desperation of poverty" and the horrors of life before the National Health Service was implemented, all of which inspired him to vote for the first time. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigMay 28, 2014
Jim Messina helped get Barack Obama elected and, if given half a chance, he'll do the same for Hillary Clinton. So what is he doing in the U.K. trying to keep Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron in power? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 15, 2014
The Labour parliamentarian was a leader who seemed too good to be true for everyone in the bottom 90 percent of the economy in Britain and everywhere else. Here is a collection of statements made by and about him.The Labour parliamentarian seemed too good to be true for everyone in the bottom 90 percent of the economy in Britain and everywhere else. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News NetworkSep 7, 2013
Australians' concerns about climate change have been sidetracked by the two major parties in the bruising campaign that has led up to the federal elections. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 31, 2012
George Galloway, the British politician remanded to all but oblivion after being expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 and losing office in 2010, made an unexpected comeback Friday when he upset Britain’s major political party candidates to win a parliamentary by-election. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigMar 19, 2012
The question is whether 2012 will mark a comeback by a left invigorated by a growing unhappiness with rising economic inequalities and a backlash against austerity policies aimed at saving Europe's common currency. (Pictured, British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.) Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 10, 2011
If pushing away from the European Union was British Prime Minister David Cameron's goal in making the U.K. the only nation in the region to veto a proposal to renegotiate the EU treaty, he got what he wanted Friday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 25, 2011
Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed a combined 76 people in the heart of Oslo and on the island of Utoeya last week, told a judge Monday that "two more cells" belonging to his supposed terrorist organization are at large. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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