It is now more than a decade since Britain joined the European Economic Community, which has gradually been bringing the nations of Western Europe together. But the British still view their membership ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There’s a probably apocryphal saying that is attributed to Napoleon: “To understand the man, you have to know what ...

In the early 1980s, the world was gripped by thoughts of nuclear war. Soviet leaders were convinced the U.S. and its allies were on the brink of a pre-emptive strike. In Britain, museum officials were ...

Britain’s managerial class increasingly resembles that of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. They know that change is coming, but they’re doing their utmost to ignore the fact as best they can, for ...

LONDON — Britain’s new coalition government on Tuesday unveiled the country’s most painful budget in a generation, outlining a program of deep spending cuts and tax hikes in line with the mood of ...

Plans were established earlier this year for a major new Universal theme park to be built in Bedford, but this is not the first time that a huge project like this was once in the works. In the 1980s, ...

* Health authorities say vigilance needed as TB cases rise * Most casts in urban city areas, 39 percent in London LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Cases of tuberculosis rose in Britain last year and the ...

Scrapping gay sex bans around the world is vital to fighting the spread of HIV because it would encourage more people to get tested, Britain's former health minister during the 1980s AIDS crisis said ...