SHAME was the first response of many people in Britain to the riots that started in the Tottenham neighbourhood of London on August 6th, skipped across the capital in the following days and nights and spread to Manchester, Birmingham and many other cities. Alongside the shame, there was a jolting bafflement. The…
Leaked U.S. State Department cables show that a British government minister advised Libya in 2008 on how to win the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds. The cables were released by the WikiLeaks website and obtained by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper. The leaked cables say then Labor Party Foreign Office minister…
The skeleton of the famous Irish Giant Charles Byrne, who lived from 1761 to 1783, exhibited at the Hunterian Museum in London.