Tag: United Kingdom

Airline Industry Group Wants Ottawa to Follow UK’s Lead, Help Bring in Restart Plan

OTTAWA—An industry group is calling on Ottawa to follow the United Kingdom’s lead and help bring in a restart plan for Canada’s airline sector. Mike McNaney, president and chief executive officer of the National Airlines Council of Canada, says the U.K. has announced that starting May 17 it will allow travel to and from a…


Airline Industry Group Wants Ottawa to Follow U.K.’s Lead, Help Bring in Restart Plan

OTTAWA—An industry group is calling on Ottawa to follow the United Kingdom’s lead and help bring in a restart plan for Canada’s airline sector. Mike McNaney, president and chief executive officer of the National Airlines Council of Canada, says the U.K. has announced that starting May 17 it will allow travel to and from a…


Incredible Pictures Show UK’s 2nd-Largest Secondhand Bookshop That Has 100,000 Books

A series of incredible pictures show one of the United Kingdom’s largest secondhand bookshops, which houses around 100,000 books inside an 18th-century church. Charles Leakey, 69, opened Leakey’s bookshop in 1979 after falling in love with a secondhand bookshop he worked at in Birmingham. The university graduate who studied history in college was an assistant…


Choosing Lockdowns, the UK Racks up ‘Unimaginable’ COVID Debts and Extra Deaths

News Analysis A damning report by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on the Johnson government’s “Test and Trace” flagship scheme, which was introduced after the first lockdown for combating the further spread of the COVID virus, has just been published. Committee chair, Meg Hillier MP, said: “Despite the unimaginable resources thrown at this project…


UK Racks Up ‘Unimaginable’ COVID Debts, Extra Deaths by Choosing Lockdowns

News Analysis A damning report by the UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee on the Johnson government’s “Test and Trace” flagship scheme, which was introduced after the first lockdown for combating the spread of COVID-19, has just been published. Committee Chairwoman Meg Hillier MP said, “Despite the unimaginable resources thrown at this project [$51 billion], Test…


Canada Is Already a Republic

Commentary That interview, and you know which one, has led to predictable calls for Canada to be a republic. OK. Abracadabra. Canada is a republic. Now what? No, really. We have been a republic for at least 800 years, which isn’t bad for a nation established 154 years ago. Because on Confederation we received a…


Britain Considers Forcing NHS Staff to Take the COVID Vaccine

The UK government is considering forcing National Health Service and health care workers to get vaccinated after a significant number have so far refused to take the COVID jab. A recent report in the Daily Mail revealed that 200,000 NHS staff and 28 percent of nursing home workers have so far refused the vaccine. Prime…


Video: The Anti-Lockdown, Anti-Woke Actor Running for London Mayor: Exclusive with Laurence Fox

Today, we sit down for an exclusive interview with Laurence Fox, the anti-woke, anti-lockdown UK actor and singer who just announced today that he’s running for London mayor. He’s a champion of free speech and founder of the Reclaim Party in the United Kingdom. American Thought Leaders is an Epoch Times show available on YouTube, Rumble,…


UK Electoral Commission Rejects BLM Political Party Bid, Says May Mislead Voters

An attempt to register Black Lives Matter (BLM) as a political party in the United Kingdom has been blocked due to concerns that the name might be misleading to voters. Britain’s Electoral Commission—an independent agency that is responsible for overseeing elections, registering political parties, and regulating their finances—rejected an application to make BLM a political…


Anger and Grief as United Kingdom’s COVID-19 Death Toll Nears 100,000

LONDON—As the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll approaches 100,000, grief-stricken relatives of the dead expressed anger at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the worst public health crisis in a century. When the novel coronavirus, which first emerged in China in 2019, slid silently across the United Kingdom in March, Johnson initially said he was…