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The Wingnut explains why socialized healthcare sucks The Wingnut explains why socialized healthcare sucks

Our undercover conservative answers a tough question: If socialized medicine is so awful, how come no country that's adopted nationalized healthcare has ever gotten rid of it?
  • At home with dad

    England encourages more men to take paternity leave.
  • Take me out to old Blighty

    News item: 1755 diary mentions baseball in England. That's nice, but we already had a 1744 reference. Not to mention David Wells.
  • TV without borders

    A guide to classic American shows born overseas.
  • The sad case of the wiggly chapati

    Will a change in U.K. immigration laws doom the most savory relic of the British Empire?
  • "Honeypots" need not apply

    British spy agency is on the hunt for female, minority applicants.
  • Quote of the day: Backlash U.K.

    The Guardian details an "all-out assault" on feminism.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    English soccer fans angry about proposed offshoring of their national game. Quaint. But we could learn from them.
  • What ever happened to Britpop?

    "The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
  • The divine sound of silence

    Britain's No Music Day offers a welcome hush over a noisy world. It can't come to America soon enough.
  • Rudy's bogus healthcare stats

    Giuliani claims he might not have survived prostate cancer under "socialized medicine," yet he was covered by a government-provided plan.
  • "She liked to dress provocatively"

    U.K. judge slammed for lenient sentence of a child rapist.
  • The impertinent prince

    Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
  • George Tenet, spook for all seasons

    The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
  • Irish teen takes abortion case to Supreme Court

    "Miss D" pleads for the right to end a doomed pregnancy -- in England.
  • At her majesty's pleasure

    After a nightmare flight from New York to London, I was thrown into a Victorian hellhole of a prison alongside drug smugglers and rapists. This is my story.
  • "Oh it's the Santa Claus race"

    You've seen one, you've seen them all.
  • Diana's last days

    The rumors swirling around Princess Diana's death were nonsense. But after her celebrity, the royal family, and England, will never be the same.
  • Media feeds on killing spree

    Five women have been killed in Suffolk County, England, and news outlets can't get enough.
  • Bond, by the book

    With the release of "Casino Royale," I read Ian Fleming's classic Bond novels again and discovered a talented spy who was "just like us" and a writer devoted to pleasure.
  • 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.
  • "Arthur & George"

    Drawing on a true story about Sherlock Holmes' creator and disemboweled farm animals, Julian Barnes delivers his most substantial novel.
  • Britain's Bush clone

    New Tory leader David Cameron is imitating Bush's campaign -- even claiming to be a "compassionate conservative."
  • Fantastic friends

    Bestselling writers Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke talk with Salon about fairies, folk tales and fighting the tyranny of realism.
  • Is it OK to shoot a suspected terrorist in the head?

    Britons debate a post-9/11 police policy that led to the killing of an innocent man.
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