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  • Panic rooms

    The British government puts up funds for domestic-violence victims to build safe rooms in their homes.
    By Catherine Price December 20, 2006

  • Bloody good food

    Nigel Slater, England's favorite food writer, chats about his new cookbook, British food's bum rap, and the future of fish and chips.
    By Adam Roberts October 31, 2006

  • Labor's love lost

    How Britons came to hate Tony Blair and America, and why the next prime minister will pay the price.
    By Andrew Brown September 14, 2006

  • Is the U.K. better than the U.S. at stopping terror?

    Americans bust the hapless Seas of David gang. The British round up real terrorist rings. But experts say the U.K. arrests more extremists because more of them live on British soil.
    By Mark Benjamin August 11, 2006

  • Should governments criminalize forced marriage?

    A British Op-Ed says the failure to ban the practice is a betrayal of Asian women.
    By Page Rockwell June 16, 2006

  • Britain supports safe abortion services

    The British government announces plans to supplement funds lost due to "global gag."
    By Tracy Clark-Flory February 6, 2006

  • Straight, no chaser

    A British woman experiments with binge drinking -- and the results aren't pretty.
    By Hillary Frey December 27, 2005

  • Self-mutilation on the rise in Britain

    The Guardian publishes a report on the alarmingly high rate of teenagers who harm themselves.
    By Rebecca Traister November 28, 2005

  • Bush's dirty war

    Whatever the president wants to call the fight against terrorism, his tactics, in marked contrast to Britain's, are severely hampering the global effort.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 5, 2005

  • An honorable withdrawal

    The London bombings remove any doubt about the damage the Iraq war has done to Western interests. Now, we must figure out the wisest way to extricate ourselves.
    By Joe Conason July 15, 2005

  • The spirits of 1776

    You thought it was all about tea? Nope, the American Revolution started because the colonists were desperate for rum. Yo ho ho!
    By Ian Williams July 2, 2005

  • Afraid to tell the truth

    A secret memo publicized in Britain confirms the lies on which Bush based his Iraq policy. Why has it received so little notice in the U.S. press?
    By Joe Conason May 6, 2005

  • "Colossus" by Niall Ferguson

    A brilliant British scholar argues that America should embrace its destiny as a global power and create a new, more enlightened kind of empire.
    By Ted Widmer May 20, 2004

  • Lost in the desert

    Why did Tony Blair, who reinvigorated Britain's Labor Party and became Bill Clinton's best friend in Europe, allow himself to get Bushwhacked in Iraq?
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 20, 2004

  • Bush's new frontier

    Ask not what the U.S. can do for Tony Blair -- or for the sick and elderly.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 27, 2003

  • Heard the one about Prince Charles and the valet?

    Regardless of the truth of the allegations that no one in Britain has heard, the truly shocking thing would be if a royal, public schoolboy or military man here had never enjoyed a spot of buggery in his youth.
    By Mark Simpson November 19, 2003

  • The bad, bad boss

    Anyone with more than three years' office experience, a crappy attitude and little to no attention to detail will savor the delicious torture of "The Office," BBC America's comedy import.
    By Heather Havrilesky May 1, 2003

  • English for Americans

    The author of "Brit-think, Ameri-think" explains how our closest ally cherishes our good relations, even though we talk about ourselves too much.
    By Suzy Hansen February 5, 2003

  • Those legs, that pout

    Kate Moss is a girl out of time, the perfect '60s dream girl who has awakened, like Austin Powers, in a changed world.
    By Charles Taylor June 13, 2002

  • Sassy Maggie

    Princess Margaret was the only royal of her day with any sex appeal at all.
    By David Thomson February 21, 2002

  • One for the lads

    The British tackled their own education gender gap by letting boys be boys -- with mixed results.
    By Amy Benfer February 5, 2002

  • Naked men

    Photographer Rankin shoots guys acting out their undressed fantasies.
    By Glen Helfand November 16, 2001

  • What happens when you satirize hysteria?

    Chris Morris, creator of the "Brass Eye" TV show, ran an episode mocking his country's response to pedophilia. Within hours he was the most hated man in Britain.
    By Ian O'Doherty August 20, 2001

  • Ben Elton

    The prolific comic genius behind "Blackadder," seven novels and four plays has been accused of going soft. He's happy to tell detractors where to stick it.
    By Mark Juddery July 23, 2001

  • Suffer the little children

    Robert Pine was a man until age 64, when he became Rebecca. It started when he was a young boy, and loved his sister's underwear.
    By Reg McKay March 28, 2001
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