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The New Entente »

A new defence treaty between Britain and France, forming the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force, has been signed and sealed. The measures agreed upon by both governments include a combined expeditionary force, a sharing of aircraft carriers and even...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Richard Martyn-Hemphill | Read more »

Companies praised for training schemes »

TUI Travel

A travel company has been awarded best internship company for undergraduates in Britain by The National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) at an award ceremony held on 6 April. TUI Travel whose brands include Thomson and First Choice Holidays won the ...

Tue 20 Apr 2010 by Honor Eldridge | Read more »

Veil ban: It's not you, it's me »

Reading the opinions of Nigel Farage MEP and Gaffur Hussain in this edition of the Journal, it would appear that the dominant reasoning behind proposals to ban the veil worn by Muslim women—either the niqab in its purely facial manifestation, or ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 | Read more »

Blair: Gaza blockade "not sensible" »

Gaza Protest

Tony Blair has called for Israel to lift the economic blockade of the Gaza strip, in an interview with Channel 4 news last week. He visited the region as Quartet Middle East envoy last week, his first visit since 2001 – then as British Prime Min...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Amy Magowan Greene | Read more »

FIFA eases Scots concerns over 2012 British football team »

FIFA

In a bid to ease nationalist worries, the International Federation of Football Association (FIFA) has claimed the international image of the home nations will not be threatened by a British Olympic team. FIFA has assured Scottish secretary of state Ji...

Sun 23 Nov 2008 by Elisabeth Evans | Read more »

The rise of the majority »

Just when it feels as though the last nail had been hammered into multiculturalism’s coffin, another public figure appears with an anvil. The latest celebrity critic of everyone’s pet ideological hate is Anglican Bishop Michael Nasir-Ali. N...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Pathik Pathak | Read more »

Restrictions on Bulgarians and Romanians are"wrong and counter-productive" »

The EU

On 1 January 2007, two and a half years after the unprecedented enlargement of 2004, Bulgaria and Romania became the newest members of the EU. However, unlike the other eight former Communist states which joined in 2004, Bulgarian and Romanian migrant ...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

News

Photos: Fire at Strathclyde

News

Censure motion fails in Israel row endgame at EUSA

Features

A case of Life and Limb

Sport

Worcester all bluster as Edinburgh breeze to victory

Arts and Entertainment

2012: Your literary briefing