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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...

Thanks to a thick, corrupt, Left-Wing Scotsman (the Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin) who has no care of British democracy, history and traditions, British democracy was trampled on by his letting the police into the Commons a couple of weeks ago to search Shadow Immigration...

The Americans and Russians have launched things such as dogs, monkeys, flies and even humans into space during the very early years of space exploration. But the quirky British are not having any of that nonsense. We have launched a couple of teddy bears up into space, and Britain has become...

One of London's Trafalgar Square lions, which has been there since 1867, has been brought to life thanks to digital animation and projections. Tourists and Londoners will be able to see and hear the lion speak to them, telling them about upcoming attractions in the capital over Christmas and...

Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, says that the Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe should be toppled just like Saddam was. Sentamu knows all about dictators - he fled to Britain from Uganda in the 1970s to escape Idi Amin. The Archbishop of York is the is the third-highest rank in the...

Today was perhaps the one day of the year the Queen acts in a way that you always think of queens as acting - sitting on a throne with a crown on her head. It is one of the days in which the British do what they do best - grand pomp and ceremony with lavish costumes involving people with...

Further evidence that the British military is the only worthwile, proper, significant military in the EU. Just 65 years or so ago, very recent history, the German Army rampaged across Europe, invading as many lands as possible to incorporate into their empire, the Reich, exterminating millions...

Between 1899 and 1902, the Second Boer War raged between the Orange Free State and their Transvaal Republic allies and the mightiest power on Earth - Britain. The British - along with soldiers from Canada, Australia and New Zealand - won the war after losing around 20,000 men. A photo taken...

The Royal Shakespeare Company in Britain use a real human skull in their production of Hamlet. This is not as offensive as it sounds because the skull belonged to a Polish pianist who fled to Britain to escape the Nazis and wanted it to be used for this purpose upon his death. He died in 1982...

It was the State Opening of Parliament today, one of those great British state occasions which involve dressing up in ceremonial dress and undertaking centuries-old rituals. One of those rituals symbolises, ironically after the recent events surrounding the arrest of Tory MP Damien Green, the...

England has its fair share of loonies, oddballs and eccentrics. On a per capita basis, England probably has more of these than any other nation. Why this should be is probably a bit of a mystery. Take William John Cavendish Bentinck Scott, the fifth Duke of Portland. This man hated daylight...

For centuries, the Speaker of the House of Commons in Britain has protected the Commons' ability to undergo their business - the business that they were elected by the people to undertake - without unwanted interference from the outside - such as meddling monarchs (as was the case in the 17th...

British soldiers in Afghanistan (the men, anyway), had the ultimate morale-booster last week - by being visited by several of The Sun's world-famous Page 3 girls. The girls were even taken down to a firing range to have a go at firing some of the weapons and even brought with them a special...

Artist Heather Jansch, of the little village of Olchard near Newton Abbot in Devon, makes beautiful life-size sculptures of horses out of driftwood that had been washed up on the nearby beach. You can buy one, but you'll have to have up to £55,000 handy.... Pictured: The stunning life-like...