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Americans working at the American Embassy in London have refused (and still refuse) to pay the Congestion Charge. And the Germans (who are also notoriously arrogant) also refuse to pay. The Americans and Germans are claiming diplomatic immunity under the 1961 Vienna Convention, which gives...

The Sunday Times October 30, 2005 For sale: Britain’s underground city Maurice Chittenden WELCOME to Cold War City (population: 4). It covers 240 acres and has 60 miles of roads and its own railway station. It even includes a pub called the Rose and Crown. The most underpopulated town...

So what are the Noughties really like? As a general rule of thumb, a decade doesn't really get going until it's a about half-way through. The Eighties, culturally, didn't really start until 84/85. The Times October 31, 2005 Times2 Oh, come on. This decade isn't that Noughtie Caitlin...

An Italian businessmen, who misled America and Britain by giving them bogus documents that suggested that Saddam was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs, was in the pay of France. The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence...

Fires of 'civil war' erupt in Paris Police in street battles after two teenagers die in chase Jason Burke in Paris Sunday October 30, 2005 The Observer Hundreds of French youths fought with police and set cars ablaze in a northern Paris suburb early yesterday morning in a second...

After the centre of London was destroyed by the Blitz in 1940, London has decided that it's finally time to repair its battered skyline. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The only way is up: high-rise hits Britain, and this time they mean it. Hugh Pearman...

EU schizophrenia (Filed: 29/10/2005) Telegraph London Tony Blair was in Hampton Court this week talking, as usual, about economic reform. Listening to him, you might easily have got the idea that the EU was streamlining and deregulating. So it comes as quite a shock to look at the budget that...

Australia: France undermining world trade BusinessWeek OCT. 24 5:38 A.M. ET France is jeopardizing world trade and preventing millions of people from rising out of poverty by refusing to accept a plan to open European agricultural markets, Australia's trade minister said Monday. The current...

French diplomatic types love to hide their devious designs behind high-minded ideals, such as "justice" in this case. But, when looked at more closely, we usually find the true motivations are more sordid. A good commentary by this blogger on the cynical nature of France's noticeably hasty rush...

EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, a close ally of Blair and Bush in the Iraq War, gives strong backing for the British stance in the EU and condemnation of French protectionist policies. The Times October 24, 2005 'We cannot hide. EU must accept globalisation or we are nothing'...

Saddams lost life on the Riviera Matthew Campbell, Grasse The Sunday Times AMERICAN troops have made themselves at home in his Baghdad palaces, but in the south of France skinhead squatters are the new masters of Saddam Hussein’s abandoned property. It has emerged that the former Iraqi...

Whilst the French verbally attack the United States for the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo.............. Cells at France's Palais de Justice condemned as 'squalid and inhumane dungeons' By Peter Allen in Paris (Filed: 10/10/2005) The European Council's commissioner for human rights...

A report funded by Canada, Britain and the Scandinavian countries says that the world is a safer place than it used to be. The world is a safer place despite people's fears By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 19/10/2005) Widespread fears about a world in a perpetual state of war are...

Only the United States spends more money on making movies than Britain, and there is yet another fantastic British movie to be released soon - Nanny McPhee. Another British movie - Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit - is currently in top position in the US box office charts...

UK company QinetiQ unveils new British plastic tank. Our new plastic armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) has sailed through its battle tests and proved to have major advantages over conventional metallic armoured vehicles of a similar size. Plastic Tank Armoured Vehicle. The...

'Armed forces threatened by EU purchases' Simon McGee Political Editor 13 October 2005 THE quality of Britain's armed forces are under threat from the Government's policy of promoting increased harmonisation with European armies that are little better than "military youth movements"...

Germany's economic performance in the past decade or so has been marked by slow GDP and productivity growth, weak job creation, high unemployment and low rates of return on investment. Japan and many of the rest of Europe's mature economies aren't doing any better -- cold comfort, perhaps -- but...

Britain's War on Pigs. By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | October 6, 2005 Pigs are disappearing all over England, but not because of some porcine variant of Mad Cow Disease: rather, the most implacable foe of the swine is turning out to be multiculturalism. The latest assault...

BRUSSELS, (AFP) - Jacques Chirac is ignorantly hostile to reform; Pervez Musharraf is "not a democrat"; and Dick Cheney's style is to stick up "two fingers" to the outside world. Oh, and Vladimir Putin is a liar. Jacques Chirac is "ignorantly hostile." Former Hong Kong governor Chris...

EU 'making 230 new laws a day' news.scotsman.com . . . The European Commission has been responsible for an average of about 230 pieces of new legislation a day since the start of July, it has been claimed. The figure was exposed by the UK Independence Party in response to a Commission pledge...