John Oliver of HBO’s Last Week Tonight was not in favor of Brexit and, as usual, expresses his opinion in hilarious fashion. Whether you were for ‘leave’ or ‘remain’, there is something for everyone to laugh at here. Oliver covers the fallout from the EU shake-up; skewering David Cameron and breaking down the economic repercussions. Of…
United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, now famous for successfully leading the Leave campaign in the Brexit vote, once referred to U.S. Senator Rand Paul as his political soulmate after meeting him on a 2014 trip to the states. In a 2015 piece published on The Telegraph‘s website, Farage noted the similarities between…
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Iron Lady, would be overwhelmed with joy if she could have lived to see her fellow Britons vote to leave the European Union. Thatcher rescued her country by reversing the encroachment of socialism into the U.K.’s economy and spent the latter days her career fighting against political and monetary unification of Europe….
As Britain leaves the EU, Texas nationalists call for independence referendum by Chris Slavens Following the stunning success of the Brexit campaign in a historic referendum calling for the UK to withdraw from the European Union (EU), interest in Texan independence surged in the U.S., inspiring a clever hashtag that practically wrote itself: #Texit. Searches…
By Jacob Bojesson British Prime Minister David Cameron announced his intention to resign within the next few months Friday after the United Kingdom surprisingly voted to leave the European Union. Cameron made the announcement just hours after a 51.9 percent majority voted in favor of leaving the EU. Cameron said Britain needs “strong, determined and…
Andrew Follett America shut down enough coal power plants last year to blackout Great Britain, according a report published by pro-industry Institute For Energy Research (IER), citing data from The Sierra Club. The total amount of electrical power generation going offline in America is equivalent to blacking out the entirety of the United Kingdom. American coal use has…
The British steel industry has been at crisis point since last month, when Indian based company, Tata Steel, announced it’s plan to close down its plant in Port Talbot, Wales. With the prospect of 40,000 British steel workers suddenly losing their jobs; politicians, the media, and the public are all very understandably anxious. However, this…
There was a lot of anticipation prior to the release of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as the author had teased that a major character would be killed off. Enter GCHQ, a secret UK intelligence agency based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, tasked with monitoring electronic communications to prevent terrorism and serious crimes. GCHQ contacted the…
Andrew Follett Experts say Britain’s dependence on wind and solar power could lead to massive blackouts this winter. The U.K. will be more vulnerable to blackouts than it has ever been for at least the next four years, Paul Massara, the former CEO of one of Britain’s largest electricity companies, told The Times of U.K. Britain’s energy difficulties are due…
Blake Neff The father of a British schoolchild is complaining after his son’s school called the police when he visited the website of an anti-immigration political party. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the U.K.’s main anti-immigration party, and collected just under 13 percent of the vote in the country’s 2015 election. It also…