Tag Archives: United Kingdom

The grandiose promises Johnson makes to survive, Paul Mason writes, rely on a state like those … in the European Union. Paul Mason* Boris Johnson has survived, but only just. The 148 Conservative MPs who voted no confidence in the prime minister on June 6th represented 41 per cent of …

Ahram Online British Ambassador to Egypt Gareth Bayley described Egypt as an “emerging renewable energy power”, at an event organised by the British Embassy in Cairo and the British Council in Egypt last Wedensday. “It is high time that the country moves to become one of the top renewable energy …

In the dusk of neoliberalism, a new narrative is needed to untangle the moral and political trade-offs of our times. Piergiuseppe Fortunato* On May 4th 1979, Margaret Thatcher entered 10 Downing Street in London as a British prime minister. The time had finally come to put into practice her political …

London – Times of Egypt The St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in London, in the high-end neighbourhood of Kensington, celebrated the Easter on Saturday. The Easter celebrations were held in attendance of the Egyptian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Sherif Kamel, Egyptian Consul General in the UK Ambassador Tarek Youssef …

Nominally egalitarian education systems, Kate Pickett writes, can in reality reproduce deep social inequalities. Kate Pickett* I’ve been reading the economist Thomas Piketty’s most recent book, A Brief History of Equality, just published in English. I found it mostly uplifting—pointing as it does to the long progressive arc towards greater equality that has …

Longstanding European democracies have suffered troubling erosions to individual rights and freedoms in recent years due to pandemic countermeasures and a host of other reasons. Aarti Narsee* As the coronavirus pandemic moves into its third year, there is no doubt that it will have lasting effects on civic and democratic …

Egypt Today “We no longer advise against all but essential travel to the southern part of South Sinai governorate and Fayoum governorate”, the United Kingdom Embassy in Egypt said on Thursday. “This means it’s now easier than ever for the hundreds of thousands of Brits who visit Egypt every year …

If the Conservatives are to be defeated at the next Westminster election, Labour must back a coalition alternative.     Frances Foley* It’s the open secret of politics in the United Kingdom: its next government will likely involve more than one party. And recently, for the first time progressive party leaders were reported by …

London – Times of Egypt In his speech at the brink of dawn on Thursday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced conducting a “special military operation” against the Ukrainian regime in Kyiv. Immediately afterwards, Ukraine sounded its raid sirens all over the country, following Russian air raids and missile attacks …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online “The organisation of the Africa Health ExCon (AHE) in Egypt is a golden opportunity for the country to become a hub for exporting pharmaceutical products to Africa”, Gareth Bayley, the British ambassador to Egypt said on Thursday. The AHE is a pharmaceutical exhibition which will …