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...Richard Dalton is a former British ambassador to Iran and a fellow at Chatham House...
Britain gets more than its fair share of any heat going, as we have found yet again with the detention of Iranian staff from the British embassy in Tehran. "Englistan" is seen as the most inveterate and craftiest of Iran's enemies. Iran's relations with the rest of Europe, crisis-prone in normal times, are fraying. Tehran would like to get back at the E.U. for postelection protests. On July 6, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Iranians deserve better leadership. Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, warned that Iran would present a firm fist to "nosy meddlers" in their...
...state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks. For goodness' sake, let's grow up.' DAVID MILIBAND, British Foreign Secretary, defending Sir John Sawyers, the incoming head of MI6, the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, after Sawyers' wife was assailed for posting photos and personal information on Facebook...
Mollie Sugden, 86, was already a familiar face on British television, but her role as salesclerk Betty Slocombe on the 1970s BBC comedy Are You Being Served? made her a star in the U.K. In the '90s, she gained popularity in the U.S. when reruns aired...
...because they think, He's one of us. Berlusconi, Severgnini wrote this year, is "not only Italy's head of government, but the nation's autobiography." By contrast, when a leader gets out of sync with her followers, all the brilliance in the world doesn't amount to much. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher found that out in 1990, when her colleagues in the British government and Conservative Party simply got tired of the endless drama over Thatcher's European policy and dumped...