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Commentary: The Faith of Nations

October 9, 2022October 8, 2022 Minnesota Sun Staff

In the faith of nations is their life and their undoing, much as it is with individuals. We may survive on the faith of others, but we cannot flourish any more than a child would when attempting to live out the dreams of his parents without making them his own. Faith is an intangible. The artificial intelligence of a computer might precisely calculate the chance of a success but it has no clue as to the value of failure. Faith can absorb both and then some.

Commentary: America Gone Mad

October 28, 2021October 27, 2021 Minnesota Sun Staff

After three weeks in Europe and extensive discussions with dozens of well-informed and highly placed individuals from most of the principal Western European countries, including leading members of the British government, I have the unpleasant duty of reporting complete incomprehension and incredulity at what Joe Biden and his collaborators encapsulate in the peppy but misleading phrase, “We’re back.”

As one eminent elected British government official put it, “They are not back in any conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason.”

First Person Receives Pfizer’s Vaccine as Britain Begins Mass Coronavirus Vaccination Effort

December 9, 2020December 8, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

Britain’s National Health Service administered its first doses of a coronavirus vaccine Tuesday, becoming the first country to begin its mass vaccination effort.

Just after 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan became the first person to receive a fully authorized vaccine outside of a clinical trial, marking the beginning of a global campaign to end a pandemic that has infected over 65 million people and killed over 1.5 million across the globe.

UK Backtracks on Giving Huawei Role in High-Speed Network

July 15, 2020July 14, 2020 The Associated Press

Britain on Tuesday backtracked on plans to give Chinese telecommunications company Huawei a role in the U.K.’s new high-speed mobile phone network amid security concerns fueled by rising tensions between Beijing and Western powers.

Britain said it decided to prohibit Huawei from working on the so-called 5G system after U.S. sanctions made it impossible to ensure the security of equipment made by the Chinese company.

British Prime Minister Has Coronavirus

March 28, 2020March 27, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Downing Street statement. In a video announcement Friday on his Twitter account, Johnson said he has “a temperature and a persistent cough” that he described as “mild symptoms” of the virus.

Commentary: A Very British Goodbye

February 2, 2020February 1, 2020 Admin

Perhaps the penny has dropped. All 50 of them. Great Britain has left the European Union. Plagues of locusts, pestilence, and lepers waited patiently in the wings.

UK Allows Huawei Limited Access to 5G Networks, Restricts the Company on Other Parts

January 29, 2020January 28, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

Britain announced Tuesday plans to allow Chinese company Huawei limited access to the country’s 5G networks, effectively dismissing U.S. pressure to avoid the telecommunications giant.

Record High Knife Crime Recorded in Britain

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 Minnesota Sun Staff

The number of knife crime related incidents in England and Wales hit a record high in the year to September, up by 7% on the previous 12 months.

British Equivalent of Charter School Outshines All Other Institutions There 4-to-1

August 30, 2019August 29, 2019 Jason M. Reynolds

Progressives took a hit when Britain’s equivalent of a charter school turned in test results four times better than their nation’s average, The Federalist reported.

Trump Commits to ‘Phenomenal’ Deal with Britain

June 5, 2019June 4, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

President Donald Trump deployed a mix of diplomacy and barbs in his joint news conference with British Prime Minister Teresa May in London Tuesday. Trump said the U.S. is committed to a “phenomenal trade deal” with Britain as the country prepares to leave the European Union, he saw “no…

Commentary: Nigel Farage is Britain’s Prime Minister-in-Waiting

June 2, 2019June 1, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Nicolas L. Waddy Since at least 2014, the most powerful man in the United Kingdom has been someone who holds no noble or royal title, and has never occupied a domestic political office. He is a former commodities broker who took up the cause of reasserting British sovereignty…

Commentary: The Road to Serfdom at 75 Years Young

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

by Peter Boettke When F.A. Hayek moved to Britain in the early 1930s from his native Austria, he was struck by what he saw as the same attitude among British intellectuals as he experienced among German thinkers during the 1920s. There was an extreme skepticism toward the market economy and…

Brexit: What Now?

March 15, 2019March 14, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

Veteran Conservative lawmaker Nigel Evans has been in Britain’s House of Commons for more than a quarter-of-a-century and, like most of his parliamentary colleagues, is stunned at the turn of Brexit events. “I got elected in 1992 and I don’t know if I have known any time more uncertain than…

Britain’s May Postpones Crucial Brexit Vote

December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 Admin

Britain’s already disorderly departure from the European Union turned even more chaotic Monday when Prime Minister Theresa May postponed a House of Commons vote on her Brexit withdrawal deal, an agreement that took months of tortuous negotiations with Brussels to conclude. After four days of debate in the House of…