List of Britain articles
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Foreign Policy illustration/Dan Kitwood/ Pier Marco Tacca/Wiktor Szymanowicz/Amer Ghazzal/Barcroft Media/Getty Images Brexit Births Boris
Our top reads on Boris Johnson's unlikely route to 10 Downing Street.
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A caricature of Hong Kong police superintendent Rupert Dover by the Chinese artist Badiucao, July 2019. Hong Kong’s Police Violence Is Stamped ‘Made in U.K.’
Modern riot control tactics were born in the city’s 1960s riots. Now they’re back with a vengeance.
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British Ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch speaks during an annual dinner of the National Economists Club at the British Embassy October 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The World This Weekend
The British ambassador to the United States exits the stage, and Europe tries to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Princess Haya bint Al Hussein attend the Royal Ascot race in England on June 19, 2014. The Fairy Tale Is Over for Dubai’s Royal Family
Sheikh Mohammed's wife has fled her home—and that may just be the beginning of his troubles.
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British Ambassador Kim Darroch speaks to guests at the ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2017. Diplomats Fear Chilling Effect of British Ambassador’s Resignation
Worries over leaks could curtail the flow of frank information from foreign embassies in Washington.
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Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson gestures during a visit to the construction project to expand Terminal Two at Manchester Airport in England on July 9. Boris Johnson’s Cartoon Englishness Is a Dangerous Joke
The likely British prime minister doesn’t take anything seriously—even the country’s future.
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Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the aerospace division of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, speaks to media next to debris from a downed U.S. drone in Tehran on June 21. The World This Weekend
Trump backs down from Iran strikes, the Pentagon gets a new chief, and Istanbul returns to the polls.
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Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, and Rory Stewart participate in a televised Conservative Party leadership debate on June 18 in London. Brexit Is for Boys
Since 2016, the campaign to leave the European Union has been led primarily by men. The remaining candidates for prime minister are all male—and they're not talking about the grave consequences of Brexit for women.
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Conservative MP and Conservative leadership contender Boris Johnson leaves his home in London on June 19, 2019. This Is No Way to Pick a Prime Minister
Britain's process for replacing Theresa May is hard-fought, high-stakes—and completely undemocratic.
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Boris Johnson arrives for the Conservative Leadership televised debate in London on June 18. Will Boris Be Britain’s ‘Last Conservative Prime Minister’?
Many Tories fear a Johnson premiership will tear the party apart for good.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron speaking during the Conservative Party Spring Forum on April 9, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Kerry Davies - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Britain’s Tories Bravely Put Party Before Country
Internal fights among the Conservatives have wrecked the U.K.—and Labour isn’t much better.
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Demonstrators take a rest the night after a protest against a controversial extradition law proposal in Hong Kong on June 12, 2019. Britain Failed Hong Kong
The U.K. owes Hong Kongers fighting for democracy a moral debt.
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A papier-mâché Theresa May is seen during a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Jan. 15. How Brexit Was Radicalized
Euroskepticism was once the purview of policy wonks. The Leave campaign changed all that, and in doing so may have undermined Britain’s Conservative Party for a generation.
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Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrives at the Foreign Office on July 15, 2016 in London. There’s Nothing Behind Boris Johnson’s Clown Mask
A brief survey of the likely future U.K. prime minister’s very long—and very thin—resume.
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Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, pose for a photo with their newborn baby son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London on May 8, 2019. Archie Windsor Isn’t the Symbol You Think He Is
The newest royal baby represents his country's future identity: not multicultural, but overwhelmingly mixed-race and entirely British.
