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The French love to strike. La grève is the closest thing that Republican France has to representative government. In most industrialized countries strikes are used judiciously, so when used, they are used to effect. The French strike both reflexively and seasonally and they strike a lot. The...

This article shows that even though just YESTERDAY Britain was losing the battle against the greedy and money-grabbing French over the EU budget, the balance suddenly shifted in Britain's favour, leaving Britain to suddenly grab ANOTHER victory against the French. The EU's Sudden Power Shift...

Television may screen finale of major trials by STEVE DOUGHTY, Daily Mail 3rd December 2005 Television may be allowed to show the conclusion to trials of murderers, terrorists and other serious criminals, it was suggested yesterday. Once a defendant has been found guilty, the cameras...

The Eastern Europeans are traditional allies of the British, who helped to free them of Communism. They don't like the French and Germans much. Now the Eastern Europeans have joined the side of Britain against France in the EU budget row even though it means a cut in their benefits. Blair is...

EU probe studies Titan.... Saturn's Earthlike Moon New data from the Huygens space probe shows Titan contains many of the building blocks that produced life on Earth By JEFFREY KLUGER Posted Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005 Searching for signs of life on other planets—at least in our own solar...

Girl next door who became a suicide bomber By Stephen Castle in Brussels Published: 02 December 2005 Murielle Degauque was, by all accounts, a normal child. A typical girl next door, you might say. True, as a teenager growing up in southern Belgium, she dabbled in drugs and preferred boys...

This was written by an Australia monarchist, but also applies to Canada. Republicans need to realise that Constutional Monarchies are MORE democratic than any Republic - "Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the...

British funny movie, starring the hilarious Rowan Atkinson and also Patric Swayze. Released January 2006. The sleepy English hamlet of Little Wallop is about to receive a rude awakening, as the absent-minded Reverend Walter Goodman (Rowan Atkinson), his dissatisfied wife Gloria (Kristin...

With top British movies, such as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Nanny McPhee, The Constant Gardener, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, doing well in both Britain and America, it's been a good year for...

Has he solved the great tensquare teaser? By JAMES MILLS, Daily Mail 1st December 2005 It is more fiendish than any Countdown conundrum, more mind-bogglingly frustrating than the most cryptic of crosswords. The idea is to fill a grid with ten words, each containing ten letters, which...

UK's first black archbishop ordained Staff and agencies Wednesday November 30, 2005 Dr John Sentamu leaves York Minster after his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. Photograph: Don McPhee Britain's first black archbishop was today inaugurated at York Minster to the rhythm of...

The Belgians decided not to fight alongside the Americans and British in Iraq. They decided to be pro-Saddam and fight us instead. Suicide bomber 'was Belgian woman' By David Rennie in Brussels (Filed: 30/11/2005) A Belgian-born convert to Islam has become the first European woman suicide...

The basic idea of this engagement is to reinforce ties between the EU and the Arab world, taking as its cue the desire often promoted by the French that a Francophone Arab world, in concert with the European powers would act as a counterbalance to the U.S. In some ways the peripheral aims are...

Tony Blair was today trying to give a speech about Britain's future energy sources. He wants new generation nuclear power stations to be built, but his speech was attacked by anti-nuclear protesters. By SUN ONLINE REPORTER ANTI-NUCLEAR protesters today scaled the roof of a conference centre...

In one thread I reported about Italy's current dismal economic performance. Now is the time for the report about France's recent dismal economic performance - During the period from 1980 to 2000, only two OECD countries, Germany and Greece, recorded slower growth in income per capita than...

Italy. The World Economic Forum in its annual competitiveness league table recently ranked the country a humiliating 47th, just above Botswana. Since after World War II, its economy grew remarkably quickly, as did many other Continental countries, re-building after the damage of the war...

In 1985, France broke international law by sinking the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand waters - waters that were clearly far away from French territory. The attack killed one Rainbow Warrior crew member. The French President of the time, Mitterand (who was also a close...

Indonesia deploys British arms against protesters Antony Barnett, investigations editor Sunday November 27, 2005 The Observer British military equipment is being used by the Indonesian authorities against civilians in remote parts of the country. Despite promises by Foreign Office...

RITUAL ABUSE OF OUR MARINES By Lewis Panther THE News of the World exposes the bullying culture of Britain's elite armed forces with a secret video documenting a sickening catalogue of abuse. A young Royal Marine is FORCED into a barbaric naked fight with another recruit and then KICKED...

The futuristic mosque will have wind turbines instead of minarets. The Sunday Times - Britain The Sunday Times November 27, 2005 Giant mosque for 40,000 may be built at London Olympics A MASSIVE mosque that will hold 40,000 worshippers is being proposed beside the Olympic...