Tag: United Kingdom

Vučić: The U.S. and UK Urged Hungary to Invade Serbia in 1999

According to Vučić, Orbán said that when he traveled to the UK for talks with country’s top politicians, Margaret Thatcher told him: “It bothers me a lot that you refused to attack Serbia because more British soldiers will die.”

Decline of the English Bobby, Part II:
The New Commissar

Police now show at least as much interest, if not more, in what people think and say as they do in obvious kinds of criminal behaviour. The new paramilitary social worker will sooner quiz a TERF than catch a thief.

U.S. Interest Rates Rise Again

The Federal Reserve announced its intention to continue to reduce its holdings of U.S. sovereign debt and has no plans to return to buying Treasury securities.

Liz Truss May Freeze Energy Bills

Despite spending much of the leadership campaign denouncing Sunak’s “handout” schemes and proposing generous tax cuts instead, now in government Truss seems to have U-turned.

Liz Truss Becomes PM

Truss faces multiple political challenges from the outset, not least of which is to unite a Conservative party still scarred by the toppling of its most successful leader in decades, not to mention the less-than-amicable leadership contest which followed.

Outgoing Boris Johnson Goes All-in On Nuclear

In his typical sloganeering fashion, Johnson called on the nation to “go nuclear and go large, go with Sizewell C.” He appeared confident that the deal will get “over the line” in the coming weeks, saying it would “be absolute madness not to.”

UK: New Price Hike Promises Bleak Winter for Consumers

The announcement comes only days before PM Boris Johnson’s successor is announced. Johnson has thus far undertaken little action in resolving the crisis, leaving this farrago for the next prime minister to untangle instead.