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The King and the Princess of Wales both have cancer. Crazy. Here's the Princess announcing it to the nation...

Britain has some of the most harsh criminal sentences in the world. For example, if you are found guilty of murder in Britain you will almost certainly be jailed for at least 40 years without parole, in many instances sentenced to spend the rest of your life in prison with no possibility of...

Yesterday (20th March) marked 50 years since Ian Ball attempted to kidnap Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth II's daughter. Apparently when Ball told her to get into his car she replied: "Not bloody likely." Ball was taken down by a boxer who punched him in the face and he was later awarded the...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged the public to get behind Princess Catherine after it emerged that her private medical records were breached by staff at the London Clinic, which is where she had abdominal surgery recently...

Leo Varadkar has announced his resignation as Toiseach (PM) of the Republic of Ireland and as leader of the Fine Gael (Irish for "Family of the Irish") party. Varadkar took to office in June 2017 until June 2020 and again from December 2022, the country's 14th Toiseach since it seceded from the...

Queen Camilla has conferred city status on the Isle of Man capital Douglas. The Isle of Man is not part of the UK but is a British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Northern Ireland. With a population of 84,000 the island depends on Britain for its defence and the King is...

I was actually thinking that myself. It's Dana Scully and Rose Tyler. Scully, of course, wouldn't believe in Doctor Who. She'd try to come up with a more rational explanation.

American-British actress Gillian Anderson, of The X-Files, plays former BBC News reporter Emily Maitlis in a new movie about Maitlis's 2018 interview with Prince Edward. The new new Netflix film also stars former Doctor Who actress Billie Piper...

The hypocrisy of the British Government over Putin's election win...

Hue and Cry - "Labour of Love" (1987) Hailing from Lanarkshire, the band reached No6 in the UK charts with this hit...

Kosheen - "Catch" (2000) Bristol drum and bass band Kosheen are celebrating their 25th anniversary. Their name derives from the name of Apache warrior Cochise. It was also discovered that, coincidentally, their name means "old-new" in Japanese. Drum and bass is a genre of music invented in...

King Charles III is determined to attend his second Trooping the Colour - the ceremony that marks the monarch's official birthday. Last year Trooping the Colour was on the 17th June and the King attended the event on horseback as his mother did for most of her reign. However, this year's...

I hope not. The first two were horrific events but a third one between three nuclear powers - Britain and the US Vs Russia - doesn't bear thinking about. Each of Britain's 250 or so nukes is six times more powerful than those America dropped on Japan in 1945.

Former US President Barack Obama today had a private meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street. It is not known what the politicians of the two allied nations discussed. The woman in yellow is the US ambassador to Britain Jane Hartley.

Elon Musk laughed at British liberal Matthew Stadlen who once claimed he feels safe in London and would never be mugged - before he was mugged. Stadlen then claimed he was mugged by a white man, when it actually appears to have been a black man.

Pet Shop Boys - "Loneliness" (2024) The London electropop veterans' new single Their 15th studio album "Nonetheless" is released on 26th April...

It was clear to see that the future King and his younger brother no longer see eye to eye at last night's memorial event to their mother Princess Diana. It's believed the last time the two brothers were in the same room was during their father's Coronation last year...

Well that's because almost nobody wants to live in the north of Canada: It's freezing bloody cold and depressing. As a Brit it boggles my mind that Nunavut is 9 times bigger than my country yet has a population of 39,000, almost the same as that of Salisbury. To you it may seem normal but to a...

The UK may be "crowded" in the sense that it has 277 people per square kilometre officially: However, the UK's 68 million people live on just 9% of its land. 91% of the UK is empty of people: Countryside and wilderness. So, contrary to the belief of Canadians, with a smaller population and a...