A cartoon from 1233.

I'm fascinated by the school lesson material at the U.K. National Archive site. That cartoon is from one titled "A Medieval Mystery...

"By 1666 at least 12,000 white smallholders had been bought out, died," or left Barbados.

"Many of the remaining whites were increasingly poor. By 1680 there were seventeen slaves for every indentured servant. By 1700, there ...

Drudge revolts against the British.

Yes, of course, the British don't like our guns. They're still licking their wounds from the 18th century.

Danny Boyle has declined a knighthood.

He's about being "an equal citizen," he says. Who else has declined a knighthood? Among others: David Bowie, musician Francis ...

Life in London — the random act of violence.

"The Daily Mail called the assailant the 'most brutal thug in Britain,' which maybe says as much about the United Kingdom’s rel...

"A teenager arrested on Remembrance Sunday on suspicion of posting a picture of a burning poppy on Facebook is being questioned by police."

"The 19-year-old was held after the image of a poppy being set ablaze by a lighter was reportedly posted online with the caption: '...

"Wind farms have been 'peppered' across Britain without enough consideration for the countryside and people’s homes..."

"... a senior Conservative energy minister admitted last night as he warned 'enough is enough.'" John Hayes said that we c...

"After Warnings of an Olympic Crush, Businesses Suffer in a Deserted London."

Regular tourists, who would have patronized the shops and theaters and so forth, chose to go somewhere else. Cabdrivers complain that busine...

"Look, if you colonists have been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own."

I didn't write this on my own. In fact, I didn't write it at all. Meade wrote this: Lord North: Look, if you colonists have been su...

"As London prepares to throw the world a $14 billion party, it seems fair to ask the question..."

"What does it get out of the bargain aside from some shiny medals, pleasant memories, and an excess of David Beckham bobblehead dolls?...

"Romney book: Britain is a tiny island that makes stuff nobody wants."

That's the headline in Foreign Policy , which is getting attention (according to Memeorandum ), especially after Romney supposedly said ...

Drudge is back to color with a glowing image of Romney...

... who has — supposedly — "made his decision!" for VP. Also on the page right now: Column 1: A very skinny-looking Obama with h...

"What else an one expect from a Republican magazine, they probably dislike themselves."

Outrage over photoshopping Kate Middleton's teeth for a magazine cover about how something's "rotten" in Great Britain. B...

"As an ideologically based movement, socialism is no longer vital."

"Today it’s a combination of democracy, rule of law and the welfare state, and I’d say a vast majority of Europeans defend this — the B...

"If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying..."

"... as it is now associated with 29 per cent of NHS deaths."

The theme of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics is "green and pleasant."

We will see a representation of "the mythical British countryside: meadows, maypoles, picnicking families, toiling farmers, cricketers...

"The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone..."

"... in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access ...

Chalkfall.

Massive collapse at the White Cliffs of Dover.

"We cannot afford to indulge this madness."

A headline I read at Memeorandum , and clicked on without knowing the actual subject. In the fraction of a second while I waited for the web...

Women's racist rant on a London train goes viral... and now she's been arrested.

Here 's the report of her arrest. Here 's the clip, posted 2 days ago, with almost 7,000 comments. Here 's the Metafilter discus...