Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.
Jonah GoldbergTags: death journalism amy-winehouse britain tabloid-journalism twitter 2011 news-international-phone-hacking phone-hacking
Britain is relying on you, Bob, so try not to make your usual hash of things.
Charles StrossSome say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)
Christopher HitchensTags: politics morality africa united-states imperialism caribbean iraq-war abolition britain british-empire slave-trade american-imperialism anti-americanism
London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.
Nick CohenTags: politics activism religion oppression journalism islam bigotry theocracy london arabs britain leftism islamism united-kingdom right-wing-politics religious-fundamentalism islamophobia reactionary
Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today
Gillian Hovell, 'Visiting the Past'Tags: history medieval britain roman archaeology stone-age dark-ages bronze-age hovell iron-age
She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.
Alexandra FullerEngland and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.
Mary WollstonecraftTags: money power america england britain
... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.
Jeremy PaxmanThe US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
Johann HariTags: united-states barack-obama britain monarchy republicanism elizabeth-ii united-kingdom monarchy-of-the-uk postage-stamps
Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.
Winston ChurchillTags: politics america britain
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