England were left looking like smiling idiots just happy to be at the party, Britain’s newspapers said Saturday after their humiliating early exit from the World Cup was confirmed. With England’s tournament in Brazil over — Costa Rica’s 1-0 win
From The Economist: For years after the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China’s leaders surprised the world by adhering scrupulously to Hong Kong’s unusual political set-up of “one country, two systems”. Under the terms of the
Immigrant parents care more about their childrens’ educations than their white, working class counterparts, according to the British government’s Chief Inspector of Schools. Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of school inspectors Ofsted, said that black and Asian children were outperforming their
Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 100 years ago this June 28th sparked World War I, was weedy, bookish and a bit shy. But the pint-sized peasant boy was also a passionate Serb and
An increasing number of migrants are using sham marriages to gain entry to the UK. According to a report by the chief inspector of borders and immigration, non-European immigrants are getting around government controls by entering into sham marriages with
A Conservative Member of Parliament is facing a backlash after appeared to tweet about physically assaulting a female journalist by punching her in the throat. Michael Fabricant’s Twitter account contained a message about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, according to the Independent. The
Hundreds of children are believed to have been kidnapped in Africa and brought to Britain for brutal voodoo rituals, a UN watchdog said, urging London to do more to combat the scourge. “We’re concerned about reports that hundreds of children
The radical left-wing party Podemos (“We Can”) of Spain, which became the sensation of the European Parliament elections after winning a stunning five seats and 1.2 million votes on its first try, accepted millions of Euros from Hugo Chávez’s repressive
On June 26th, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will headline an “America’s Last Stand” Tea Party rally in Eastern Tennessee at the Sevierville Convention Center. The rally was scheduled to be held at Smokies Stadium, but was moved indoors due to
Like many conservatives and American workers, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said that the Republican establishment’s embrace of amnesty for llegal immigrants is the one issue that is making her think about renouncing her ties to the GOP. Palin has
BEIJING (AP) — A court in eastern China on Thursday sentenced to up to 6 ½ years in prison three activists who were part of a nascent civil rights movement that has urged government officials to publicly disclose their assets.
Mike Hancock, the sleazy former Liberal Democrat MP who has admitted using his position to take sexual advantage of a mentally ill constituent may be in line for a huge pay off courtesy of the British taxpayer. The Portsmouth South
Vox.com, Ezra Klein’s new “explainer” website, explains that the IRS scandal was all about budget cuts–not corruption: The core issue is that the IRS needs to figure out which nonprofit groups that file as 501(c)4s for tax purposes are eligible…But
Vox explains that the IRS scandal was all about budget cuts: The core issue is that the IRS needs to figure out which nonprofit groups that file as 501(c)4s for tax purposes are eligible…But enforcing that is tough…it requires investigating each
AUSTIN, Texas–Following the contentious debates at the Texas State Republican Convention earlier this month over the content of the official Republican Party of Texas Platform, key leaders in the state’s Young Republican and College Republican organizations have spent the past
Former prime minister Sir John Major, the Tory politician who surrendered significant parts of the British Constitution to the European Union in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and turned Her Majesty’s subjects into “citizens of the EU,” yesterday lectured the Scots
If ever you doubted that putting the European Union in charge ofenvironmental issues is a bit like inviting the Taliban to run MissWorld, consider this story by Richard Northabout the characteristic blend of bullying, incompetence, corruption,greed, high-handedness, dishonesty and ineffectuality
If California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants any chance at winning the general election against incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown later this year, he will have to persuade a sizable chunk of the state’s Independent and Democratic voters to vote
Over the weekend, members of the Taliban “cut the fingers off 11 Afghan’s who…[voted in the June 14] presidential run-off poll.” Taliban attacks also “killed more than 50 people.” According to BBC News, the Taliban warned people not to vote
In the fifth essay of this series, I discussed Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA. Among researchers of education policy, Sander is perhaps the fiercest critic of affirmative action. He’s also probably been the target of more criticism from race and
HOUSTON, Texas–Judge Elsa Alcala issued a condemning rebuke to her fellow jurists this week for summarily disregarding the constitutional right of non-English defendants to have a translator in a criminal trial. The affable and scholarly jurist rebuked the majority in
Although Japan’s national team could not make an impression on the Ivory Coast’s defense in their 2-1 loss at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Japanese fans made a huge impression on Brazil by cleaning up the stadium after their disappointing
A “fluorescent green statue” of Vladimir Lenin urinating has been erected in the Polish town of Nowa Huta as part of Krakow’s 6th Grolsch ArtBoom Festival. The statue is titled the “Fountain of the Future.” According to The Independent, the
The EU’s energy commissioner has threatened politicians and journalists who campaign against his eco-policies, accusing them of stirring “anti-EU sentiment” and warning them that their opposition to his EU energy-savings directives will “not be taken lightly.” Günther Oettinger, a German
The British Court of Appeal has halted an attempt by prosecutors to hold a terror trial completely in secret. Instead the judges ruled that the “core” of the trial could be partly held in secret but other elements of it
