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The Australians are quick to brand the British, or "Poms" as they call them, "whingeing Poms" over the stereotype, amongst Australians, that the British like to complain over the slightest things, especially when the Australians beat us in the rugby or cricket. But in recent years it's the...

The Daily Mail's Peter Hitchens says that even though Israel has done bad things in the past (like every country), it is NOT the Third Reich reincarnated. Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, how ignorant we are about you 17th December 2008 Peter Hitchens Daily Mail The eruption of the...

Princess Beatrice's pet dog - a Norfolk Terrier named Max - has gone missing in Windsor Great park, a 5000 acre deer park on the border between Berkshire and Surrey. He has been missing for over a week, but she has a helping hand - her grandmother. The Queen is a great dog lover. She has had...

A teenager was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 22 years in gaol for the murder of 11-year-old football fan Rhys Jones in the Croxteth area of Liverpool last year. He has no chance of parole until he has served that time. Rhys Jones, an ardent Everton fan, was on his way home from football...

Mark Spencer from Easton, Hampshire has built the world's largest radio-controlled tank. It is 6 foot (1.8 metres) long and weighs a whopping 39 stones (250kg). The tank is a German WWII King Tiger.... The ultimate boys' toy: The giant radio-controlled tank that's SO powerful it could pull...

Newgate Gaol, which stood in London for many centuries (albeit being rebuilt several times, most notably after the Gordon Riots in 1780) between around 1122 and 1902 was, without doubt, the world's most notorious and infamous prison. So notorious that Americas's Sing Sing Prison was originally...

Both Britain and Germany may have been arguing with each other recently on how to solve the EU's economic woes, but this hasn't stopped the Germans being a nation of Anglophiles. From Last Night of the Proms to Blackadder and Faulty Towers, from fish & chips to polo, and from Jane Austen to...

Britain appears to have victory over Germany in the diplomatic war between the two nations after it secured a unanimous deal on a Europe-wide economic rescue package. Certain members of Germany's ruling coalition have criticised British Prime Minister's recent economic policy. Brown claims...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited British soldiers in Afghanistan - much to the anger of Winston Churchill's grandson. The PM visited the troops just hours after four British soldiers were killed in the area. Brown did better than his enemy Tony Blair, who never left the safety of a...

The England cricket team were in India preparing for this Test Series against India at the time of the Mumbai attacks. The attacks caused England to fly back home, in two minds as to whether or not to continue with the Series. To their credit, they blew a raspberry in the face of terrorism by...

Hallowe'en is an event which started in Britain millennia ago, when it was called Samhain. The ancient Britons believed that on October 31 the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged...

Prince William looked a bit like his great-great-grandfather King George V yesterday, sporting a beard during a pheasant shoot at Sandringham, Norfolk. The future King was joined on the shoot by his brother Prince Harry, his girlfriend Kate Middleton and a mystery blonde.... Kate aims high...

I don't know what most Americans will think about it (but the British will think it's great), but the father of the man who is about the become the new US President was born in the British Empire. Obama's father was Kenyan, and he was born in Kenya whilst it was a part of the British Empire...

Of the 27 EU states, 15 (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain) use the Euro and 12 (Britain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia...

If you were a kid in the Fifties and Sixties, the chances are you would have watched TV shows such as Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine and Noggin the Nog. All these were the creations of British animator, writer and puppeteer Oliver Postgate, who died on Monday aged 83. There was none...

The quiz show, "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?", started in Britain in 1998. It has since been exported to many countries around the world, and has recently arrived in Afghanistan. The Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn (who should be Prime Minister) imagines what an episode of Afghanistan's...

The British island of Sark was, until today, the last feudal state in the Western world. Today its first democratic election is taking place. The island lies between Britain and France in the English Channel and, despite lying off the coast of Normandy, is a British Crown Dependency and has...

Squatters couldn't believe their luck when they discovered the glorious Fife House, in Brighton, East Sussex. This building, dating from the English Regency period (1795-1837, a period In English history noted for its distinctive literature, fashions, architecture, politics and aristocratic...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown embarrassed himself in the Commons today during Prime Minister's Questions, the half-hour session that takes place each Wednesday when MPs of all parties are able to ask questions to the Prime Minister that is broadcast live on TV. When asked about his...

Woodes Rogers, of the Royal Navy, was not your average sea captain. This man was a pirate hunter, who was funded by British businessmen to attack rich vessels from any country, except Britain, and seize their booty. He was also responsible for capturing the British pirate Blackbeard, the...