"The efforts of governments alone will never be enough..."
                                               --John F Kennedy
 

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..."
                                 --Robert Frost
 

Words Of The Year
Oxford, Cambridge, and Webster have all revealed their 'words of the year' for 2018; we review their choices, and add a few choice ones of our own... Read More...

http://bit.ly/words_18

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
With Parliament's recent votes, the classic emergency call has taken on multiple new meanings for Britain, Europe, and the world... Read More...

http://bit.ly/mayday_mayday

British journalist Rachel Shabi traces history to show how the UK, like us, has always been a nation of immigrants, while The Guardian's Aditya Chakrabortty shows why their recent parallel vilification is perhaps even less justified than here in the colonies... Read More... And More...

http://bit.ly/uk_immination
http://bit.ly/uk_imgrate

The New Statesman explains how the political class brought Britain to where it is--a familiar story--and award-winning journo Carole Cadwalladr tells a part of the story she uncovered that's even more familiar... Read More... And More...

http://bit.ly/uk_rise_fall
http://bit.ly/uk_russia

"The true purpose of education is to produce citizens..."
                                               --Eleanor Roosevelt
 

 

In his suicide note, her husband told her what to do. Now Welsh housewife Emma Picton-Jones is solving a problem that afflicts the heartland on both sides of the Atlantic... Learn More... 

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Only in America? TES, originally merely a UK newspaper supplement, has grown into the largest online education community in the world, with corresponding impacts... Learn More...

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Before there was the Constitution, there was the Magna Carta. The British Library explores the many ways it's still impacting and changing our lives, 800+ years after it was signed... Learn More...

http://bit.ly/bl_magna