by Contributed | Apr 21, 2022 | Blog
By Phil HAZLEWOOD Gun salutes will ring out Thursday to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 96th birthday, although the monarch herself was expected to mark the occasion with little fanfare. It has been a troubled year for Britain’s royal family, with concerns over...
by Contributed | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog
By Ben PERRY British finance minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday launched plans to ease a cost of living crisis, with growth set for a massive slowdown as the war in Ukraine and decades-high inflation pummel the economy. In a budget update, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
by Contributed | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog
By Véronique DUPONT From huge donations to political parties and bids for games of tennis with senior ministers, to nominations for peerages, Russian money in British politics has been a recurrent issue for years. But the invasion of Ukraine has intensified calls for...
by Contributed | Feb 21, 2022 | Blog
Peter Harris, Colorado State University The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still...
