The Nazi Duke of Coburg made several visits during the mid-1930s to his second cousin, Britain's new King Edward VIII. Once, the royal cousins chatted "with pipe at the fireside" in ...

Then, between 1980 and 2000, it suddenly leaps up to become much the most common term for the country, well above “Britain” or “Great Britain”. It still is. I don’t think this is by chance. The only ...

To some in the U.K., the criticisms from the American right over arrests of people for hate speech seem hypocritical, given ...

A motto for modern Britain in five words or fewer? How about "In America we trust" or "At least we're not French", or "Land of yobs and morons".