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Like a petulant phantom, the theme of Europe has haunted British general elections for decades.
Remember 1992 and the “No, No, No!” chant and other Maastricht machinations of the then-departed prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, echoing around John Major’s campaign? Those chants ended up in the heavy clang of “Let’s get Brexit done!” in 2019.
The next general ele...
Britain’s political pundits are enjoying themselves commenting on the shock results of municipal elections which have seen the governing Labour Party’s candidates humiliated.
More than 1,000 of Sir Keir Starmer’s men and women running local councils across the country have been voted out of office.
Two big winners
The first big winn...
There is one vegetable that’s almost better frozen than fresh: the pea. An early 1970s advertising jingle captured its taste this way: “Sweet as the moment when the pod went pop!”
The commercial brand that presented it was Bird’s Eye, named after Clarence Birdseye, the American entrepreneur and inventor considered the founder of the frozen food industry. Back in 1952,...
Reducing, or rather eliminating, childhood poverty is a moral obligation in any society — all the more so in one as rich as the United States of America.
There, the costs that are related to the conditions associated with childhood poverty amount to $500 billion per year – the equivalent of nearly 4% of U.S. GDP.
For decades, successive American administrations...
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