Twitter users undermine attempt to gag UK media

Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt Tuesday to stop Britain's media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy.

1

0

UK Army chief: More troops needed in Afghanistan

Britain's army chief said Wednesday that more troops are needed in Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Helmand as soldiers pursue a bloody campaign to uproot Taliban fighters ahead of elections next month.

0

0

Canada bans outspoken anti-war British lawmaker

Canada has banned an outspoken anti-war British lawmaker from the country on national security grounds, officials said Friday.

3

5

Analysts see worrying trend in airport incursions

Protesters stormed the tarmac at one of Britain's busiest airports, shut down two airports in Thailand and invaded a runway in Athens — and some experts see a worrisome pattern.

1

1

Britain delays decision on Heathrow expansion

Britain says it has delayed its decision on whether to build a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.

0

0

UK Jewish Israeli-origin musician and writer Gilad Atzmon exposes the power of the Zionist Lobby in the UK: "In order to reclaim sovereignty and dignity, Britain must de-Zionise itself immediately."

3

1

An American document that allegedly describes the torture of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate should be made public, a British court ruled Friday, dismissing Britain's argument that it was suppressing the information to preserve its intelligence-sharing relationship with the United …

1

0

Britain is the worst place in Europe to live despite offering the biggest salaries, a study revealed today. High incomes in the UK are cancelled out by long working hours, poor annual leave, rising food and fuel bills and a lack of sunshine.

14

28

Lotto winners Stan and Pat Cable are still renting their £65-a-week council house - 17 months after pocketing £3.9million [$6.2 million]. The couple have no plans to move from their beloved home of 28 years and can't kick the habit of living on a tight budget.

4

9

From Julius Caesar to Adolf Hitler, the invasion of Britain has been a constant theme in the history of these islands, even if the successful attempts have been heavily outnumbered by the unsuccessful ones.

1

1

The UK Border Agency has scientists "horrified" at a weird, eugenics-flavoured proposal to test asylum seekers' DNA to determine if they are truly and purely of the "race" they claim to be from.

1

1

Unless you are a connoisseur of small pictures of bearded, brooding fanatical clerics there is not much reason to collect Iranian currency.

12

34

"hree Britons were jailed for life on Monday for plotting a "terrorist outrage" on the scale of the September 11 attacks by blowing up transatlantic airliners bound for North America using bombs made from liquid explosives.

3

1

The British National Party is poised to give up its whites-only membership policy after a legal challenge accusing it of racial discrimination.

3

1

excerpt: ''"If you get caught defending Hitler two times ... Well, I guess you could say it was just be an unfortunate coincidence.

4

6

Researchers have claimed the food provided in British prisons is better than in NHS hospitals.

3

3

The Left used to have a chant: "No war for oil." But now that Britain has let a terrorist who killed 243 passengers go free, because to do so meant access to a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal for British Petroleum (BP), we have not heard a word.

2

2

The Lockerbie affair is an ugly can of worms that is slowly opening up, much to the embarrassment of the Prime Minister, who has failed even to condemn Megrahi's release from prison.

2

4

The British government decided it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.

4

2

A group of naked ramblers has sparked controversy by organising walks through Britain's popular beauty spots.

1

1

A Bristol project which helps prostitutes with babies has been awarded nearly £200,000 of government cash.

1

1

Foreign criminals are trafficking children as young as three months old into Britain and using them to defraud the benefits system of millions of pounds, a Sunday Times investigation has found.

2

4

This was a craven performance that smacked of weakness

2

1

Feminism has never had it so bad. Britain is riven with porn culture and a generation is in thrall to a sexist agenda

3

3

Even in the decades after it lost its empire, Britain strode the world like a pocket superpower.

4

5

One of Britain's gangbuster police has been arrested during an investigation into indecent images of children. SOCA: Serious Organised Crime Agency

1

0

A junior school headteacher today defended using CCTV to monitor toilet blocks in an effort to deter vandals. Len Holman, head at Angel Road Junior School in Norwich, said pupils had requested the cameras, which cover the sinks, to protect newly-refurbished toilet blocks.

4

7

Jul. 15 - The price of war for Western forces in Afghanistan continues to rise as casualties mount.

0

0

But times are changing.

4

5

Rising casualties prompt the fear that Afghanistan is becoming a quagmire. But Britain's interests lie in defeating the Taleban and helping to build a stable state

1

0