European links
A Tudor recreation site in the UK.
A Somali immigrant wins damages in a Swedish court for mistreatment by her parents, including genital mutilation.
In the UK, a mother is gaoled for three years for forcing her school age daughters to marry their cousins.
UK-French relations have not been helped by revelations of the level of official ineptitude involved in the torture-murder of two French students by two habitual criminals who should have been in custody at the time. The comments on the article are fairly savage and, sometimes, sadly informative.
The scandal of an expose of Milan Kundera and the problems of the legacy of Leninist rule.
About a new book that explores the decline and despair of Britain in the 1970s.
Revelations that the West German policeman who shot an unarmed demonstrator in 1967 in an iconic incident in modern German history was a Stasi agent.
In the European elections (useful graphic on results), turnout was low, the vote fragmented and shifted rightwards. More.
Labour does dismally in the European elections (including losing the popular vote in Wales for the first time since 1918), with the BNP getting seats for the first time. Gordon Brown survives challenge even though Labour received its worst national vote in over 100 years at the European elections.
A Somali immigrant wins damages in a Swedish court for mistreatment by her parents, including genital mutilation.
In the UK, a mother is gaoled for three years for forcing her school age daughters to marry their cousins.
UK-French relations have not been helped by revelations of the level of official ineptitude involved in the torture-murder of two French students by two habitual criminals who should have been in custody at the time. The comments on the article are fairly savage and, sometimes, sadly informative.
The scandal of an expose of Milan Kundera and the problems of the legacy of Leninist rule.
About a new book that explores the decline and despair of Britain in the 1970s.
Revelations that the West German policeman who shot an unarmed demonstrator in 1967 in an iconic incident in modern German history was a Stasi agent.
In the European elections (useful graphic on results), turnout was low, the vote fragmented and shifted rightwards. More.
Labour does dismally in the European elections (including losing the popular vote in Wales for the first time since 1918), with the BNP getting seats for the first time. Gordon Brown survives challenge even though Labour received its worst national vote in over 100 years at the European elections.