Free Republic

The UK Government has denounced Donald Trump’s government for leaking pictures (of a Forensic nature) into the Media and thereby hampering the ongoing investigation into the Manchester Terror Attacks. And though the British media is involved in a full scale frenzy because of this, they neglect to point the finger of blame where it should really be. If one thing has become obvious since Donald trump’s election, it is that he does not have complete control over all departments and that it is the holdovers from the Obama administration that are actively involved in leaks of official documents. How many...

LONDON (AFP) - The British government is to investigate a school funded by Saudi Arabia's government involved in a row over textbooks allegedly describing Jews as "monkeys" and Christians as "pigs", the Times has reported. The King Fahad Academy in west London has already said it will remove the disputed chapters from the books in question, which it said were used as "secondary sources". It claims the controversy arose from a misinterpretation of the Koran-based material and stresses it does not teach hatred. But schools minister Jim Knight has said he wants reassurance that the school is complying with requirements...

LONDON – Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a British government report said Monday, as the country launched a bid to convince doubters that environmentalism and economic growth can coincide. Prime Minister Tony Blair said unabated climate change would eventually cost the world the equivalent of between 5 percent and 20 percent of global gross domestic product each year. He called for “bold and decisive action” to cut carbon emissions and stem the worst of the temperature rise. “It is not in doubt that, if the science...

LONDON – A comprehensive report on the global economic cost of climate change, to be released by the British government on Monday, is expected to be the world's most serious effort to quantify the long-term effect of doing nothing. The Independent newspaper reported Friday that the long-awaited review would say global warming could cost the world's economies up to 20 percent of their gross domestic product if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes. Sir Nicholas Stern, the report's author, met privately with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Cabinet ministers on Thursday to brief...

Vitamin supplements used by thousands of Britons, from pregnant women to people warding off winter colds, are to be swept from shop shelves from the new year under controversial European Union safety regulations

In last month's policy document on sex crimes, Protecting the Public, David Blunkett wrote: "Sexual activity between people of the same sex is generally recognised to be profoundly disturbed behaviour. A new offence will criminalise those who sexually penetrate members of their own sex or allow themselves to be penetrated by them. This will carry a maximum two years' imprisonment." Oh, all right, I made that up. He didn't say any such thing. In fact, this Government thinks that homosexual activity is perfectly respectable - as witness yesterday's announcement by Barbara Roche, the minister for social exclusion and equalities, that...