Month: January 2017

Opposition to Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain has been undermined by the pro-monarchy phrasing of the petition to Parliament. The petition says that the proposed visit should be cancelled because “it would cause embarrassment to” queen Windsor. That seems very unlikely as Britain’s hereditary head of state has entertained the likes of Robert Mugabe…

British Prime Minister Theresa May has, as reported by the New York Times, “scolded (US) Secretary of State John Kerry for his speech criticising Israel”. May’s criticism was of Kerry’s comments on the “composition of the democratically elected government of an ally” rather than of his criticism of the policies of the government of Israel.…