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The UK and Argentina have long argued over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, which boiled over into conflict when the South American country invaded the British Overseas Territory almost 40 years ago. Though US President Ronald Reagan was close to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, files showed Washington believed London had not considered diplomatic options thoroughly enough and initially tried to end the conflict through shuttle diplomacy . However, when Argentina refused the peace o
On 1 January 2021, the United Kingdom left both the European Customs Union and the Single Market. Its trade relationship with the European Union is now governed by a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which establishes a free-trade area in goods and services broadly comparable to recent trade deals between the EU and major, advanced non-European countries such as Canada and Japan.
To appreciate fully the significance of this new chapter in the EU-UK trade relationship – and the ironies it brings with it – it is useful to examine how that relationship has evolved over the past 60-plus years. The UK is now outside structures it helped create and that, indeed, were fundamental to UK efforts over six decades to avoid being economically disadvantaged in Europe. It should be noted that what follows focuses solely on trade, which is the core of the TCA. This article does not delve into areas such as monetary integration or the EU budget, which were important when the UK belonged to
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The joke making the social media rounds in the wake of the Georgia Senate runoffs goes like this: “A Black man and a Jewish man walk into a bar in Georgia and the bartender says, ‘What’ll you have, senators?’”
Virtually every “walk into a bar” joke ever told is based on a premise of, “Now there’s something you don’t see every day.” And so it goes with films and TV series that use a real-life meeting between notable figures as a launching point for largely (or completely) fictional works of entertainment, whether it be The King and the President meeting in “Elvis & Nixon” (2016) or Queen Elizabeth’s conversations with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” or even the recent “The Comey Rule” on Showtime, which re-imagines a dinner between the director of the FBI and the beleaguered president.
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After
The CrownSeason 4 was released on Netflix last November, many of us binge watched all eight episodes within days. We previously reported how the drama attracted more viewers than Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s actual wedding, with 29 million people tuning into the series within its first week of release. If you’re left wondering when
The Crown Season 5 will be hitting our screens, here’s everything we know so far.
The Crown Season 5 will be the penultimate series
Sadly, for fans of
The Crown, an end is in sight - but not just yet. The show’s creator Peter Morgan confirmed that there would be a final Season 6 during an interview in July 2020, ‘As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to the richness and complexity of the story we should go back to the original plan and do six seasons.’ He added, ‘To be clear, Series 6 will not bring us a
David Barclay, Secretive British Billionaire and Daily Telegraph Owner, Dies at 86
David built a joint fortune with his twin brother Frederick, with whom his family had recently sparred
David Barclay was knighted in 2000 along with his brother Frederick. Photo: michael stephens/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images By Jan. 13, 2021 8:40 am ET
LONDON David Barclay, the secretive British billionaire who, with his twin brother, built a property and media empire before a spectacular and public falling out, has died.
He was 86. A spokesman for his family confirmed the death but declined to comment further.
David and Frederick Barclay rose from an impoverished childhood in war-torn London to become two of Britain’s richest men, accumulating storied assets such as London’s Ritz Hotel and the Daily Telegraph, an influential conservative newspaper.