LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the London terror attack Wednesday that left at least three people dead. The group called the attacker a “soldier of the Islamic State” in a statement published by its propaganda outlet, the Amaq News Agency. The unidentified man drove a car…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson The U.K. parliament in London was placed on lockdown Wednesday after a reported shooting took place outside the entrance, and at least a dozen people were injured at the nearby Westminster Bridge during an alleged car attack. A witness account said one civilian and one police officer…
TLR Exclusive Interview with MEP Daniel Hannan by Pia Varma Great Britain has always been a fiercely independent European nation, but it is also a nation that plans before it acts. Its Glorious Revolution in 1688 brought forth the English Bill of Rights, in a strategic, parliamentary fashion rather than by a violent, mob revolt….
In a House of Commons vote on Wednesday, MP’s voted 225-74 to change Canada’s national anthem. Bill C-210, which was proposed by Liberal MP Mauril Belanger, who suffers from ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s Disease), changes the second line of the anthem from “true patriot love, in all thy sons command” to “in all of us…
The Australian Parliament took the first step in medical cannabis legalization recently when they approved the growing of marijuana for medical and research purposes. “This is an historic day for Australia and the many advocates who have fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer…
By Jacob Bojesson A citizen petition calls for U.S. President Barack Obama to be banned from speaking in the British Parliament, following revelations that he plans a big intervention on “Brexit.” The reason behind the petition is Obama’s plans for “a big, public reach-out” to persuade Britons to vote against the referendum to leave the European…
Guy Bentley Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party Nigel Farage is accusing the European Union of moving towards a Soviet-style government. In a fiery speech delivered in the European Parliament, Farage lamented the ousting of European leaders such as Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Greece’s George Papandreou under E.U. pressure in 2011. Referring to the E.U.’s…
Blake Neff A crushing sweep for conservatives in Poland’s Sunday election means that left-wing parties have been entirely eliminated from the country’s parliament, the Sejm, for the first time since the end of World War 2. The feat is all the more impressive because Poland uses a proportional representation system where instead of electing individual…