As Eurocrats-in-chief go, Ursula von der Leyen has generally been relatively inoffensive to British sensibilities. Most of us were dimly aware that she was one of those people who excel at “failing ...

Winston Churchill’s cabinet employed everything but billboard posters to ballyhoo the show in advance. “We are going to have a two days’ debate,” announced the Prime Minister, “at which very grave and ...

BRUSSELS - European Union newcomers stepped into a heated debate on Britain's EU budget rebate on Monday, insisting it should be scaled back, while London vowed to fight on to preserve the payback ...

Children growing up in Britain’s poorest neighbourhoods are being condemned to die a decade earlier and spend 20 fewer years in good health than those living just a few miles away, shocking new data ...

>The London magazine Time and Tide charged that American Red Cross clubs in Britain, now open only to U.S. troops, encouraged “segregation,” prevented free and healthy mingling of Britons and Yanks.

LONDON — We booked a taxi because the London Underground, the “Tube,” would be closed for a week by a strike. The rail workers’ union canceled the strike with just hours to spare. The union said it ...

In this adapted extract from his provocative new book, the journalist James Bartholomew argues that if Britain had never built its welfare state, it would be a much richer country. It is 1961 in Hong ...

Escape to the country has long been a popular staple of UK television, reflecting city families in search of a quieter life, yet a study from Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) has revealed that poor access to ...