Britain's Tories have been in power for a long time and incumbents generally get a midterm beating. So, of course, Boris Johnson is expecting a slapdown in local government elections tomorrow.
There a...
One of the quainter rules among British lawmakers is they cannot openly accuse each other of lying. It does not bode well for Boris Johnson that on Wednesday his opponents found so many ways around th...
By the time Brits returned from the long New Year's weekend, well over 600,000 people had signed a petition seeking to deny former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair the knighthood he was awarded in the Qu...
Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, faces yet another week of political crisis even as his Government confronts new public-health challenges posed by the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
His leade...
Regular tennis fans got an introduction to 18-year-old Emma Raducanu’s power and personality during her impressive run at Wimbledon this year. But it was her victory at the US Open on Saturday that tu...
The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taleban control presents Britain and its Nato allies with two primary dilemmas — the first is immediately pressing, the second has longer-term implications.
The urgent...
Some sports stars dazzle on the pitch or earn headlines for their after-hours antics. Others lend their names to good causes. But it's unusual for a player in his early prime to take on a government a...