A sense of exceptionalism served Britain well in world wars, but COVID-19 has exposed the dangers of going it alone. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and quotes from her COVID-19 speech pictured in an empty Piccadilly Circus in London, 9 April 2020. (AP Photo/Kirsty...
Britain was once a colonial power in Africa but now lags other nations in trade with the continent. Boris Johnson says he wants to change that. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (C), Laurence Kemball-Cook, CEO of Pavegen Systems (L), and Ciiru Waweru Waithaka, CEO...
I accompanied two U.S. presidents to D-Day commemorations. Then I traced the footsteps of my uncle, a doctor who became a war hero. Captain John Cotter (photo courtesy of Gene Gibbons) Seventy-five years ago today, tens of thousands of American, British, Canadian,...
It’s a term taken from cricket and baseball. Now, a “backstop” holds the key to Britain’s messy exit from the European Union. Demonstrators on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland near Newry in Northern Ireland, 26...
Northern Ireland has been peaceful for two decades. But tensions are building again as a power-sharing agreement teeters and Brexit looms. People celebrate in Belfast after the approval of the Good Friday Agreement, 23 May 1998.(AP Photo/Pacemaker, Martin Wright,...