The biracial children of Kenyan women and visiting British soldiers have long lived uncomfortable lives in Kenya. Now a local lawyer is taking some of the children to Britain to confront authorities over hundreds of such cases reported over the years. He also wants to find the fathers and seek their support. It is a […]
Barnaby Phillips The field outside the royal palace in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi was filled with an exuberant crowd, celebrating the return 100 years ago of an exiled king. Prempeh was the Asante king, or “Asantehene”, of the late 19th Century who resisted British demands that his territory be swallowed up into the expanding […]
Russia has expelled a British diplomat after accusing him of espionage, according to reports. The TASS news agency cited Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying that the ministry had also summoned the British ambassador. Footage shows the British ambassador’s car pulling up to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. The UK Foreign […]
BBC Michael Northey’s father was one of four soldiers killed in the Korean War who was successfully identified From his wheelchair, Michael Northey watches quietly over his father’s grave, and lays a flower for the very first time. “This is the closest I’ve been to him in 70 years, which is ridiculous,” he jokes poignantly. […]
BP CEO Murray Auchincloss (left) and Shell CEO Wael Sawan take part in a panel at energy event … [+] ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi on November 4, 2024. (Photo: by Fadel Senna) AFP via Getty Images A rather unsubtle change is afoot at the world’s two British oil majors – BP (LON: BP) and Shell […]
ITV, the broadcaster of the British version of the reality series “Big Brother,” edited an episode of the show to remove all shots of a shirt worn by one of the contestants which featured a watermelon — a symbol of Palestinian solidarity. Watermelon iconography has been associated with Palestine since at least the 1960s but […]
“All art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art.” The saying from 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell features in The Story of British Propaganda Filma new book in the British Film Institute (BFI)’s British Screen Stories series at Bloomsbury Publishing written by Scott Anthony, the deputy head of research at the U.K. […]
Video that emerged over the weekend appeared to show Mike Amesbury, a Labour party lawmaker, hitting a man in the face and then repeatedly landing more body blows.
Picryl Shapurji Saklatvala was the nephew of Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, who founded the Tata Group The name Shapurji Saklatvala may not be one that leaps out of the history books to most people. But as with any good tale from the past, the son of cotton merchant – who is a member of India’s supremely […]
IMAGE SUPPLIED Necdet Seyitoğlu lived in the UK for 18 years before moving to Kenya A British national has told the BBC that he and several Turkish citizens were abducted in the Kenyan capital Nairobi by masked men on Friday, with four of the Turkish citizens still missing. Necdet Seyitoğlu, who lived in the UK […]
