Royal Round Up 1-26-10: More Royal Remains; Wild for Wool; Klosters Not Kosher Just Now

Oldest royal remains found in Germany

A team of experts are currently trying to identify a set of bones discovered at Germany’s Magdeburg Cathedral. They believe they may have found 10th century Anglo-Saxon princess Eadgyth, the sister of King Athelstan and the granddaughter of Alfred the Great.
Tests on the bones are still pending at Bristol University [...]

A Pint of Bitter: Choudary banned, Blair and Iraq (again) – and UK joblessness down

Last time, I wrote about Anjem Choudary and his Islamist gang, Islam4UK. Well I doubt I’ll be writing about them again, because since then they’ve managed to get themselves banned. The government has power to “proscribe” organisations under Britain’s terrorist legislation, and Home Secretary Alan Johnson, spurred no doubt by the controversy over Islam4UK’s suggested [...]

A Pint of Bitter: Gordon Brown survives brief blizzard Coup Attempt, Islam in the UK and Much More!

Happy New Year! Snow is on the ground again in London. It’s not like much of the rest of the country: my parents are actually snowed in, up North. There’s no infrastructural breakdown here, apart from the predictable tube delays. But cold, it certainly is. Ideal weather for settling down with a warming pint of [...]

Breaking News: Prime Minister Gordon Brown Faces Fresh Leadership Challenge

This is quite an interesting development – with a mandated general election looming, several former cabinet ministers are calling for a fresh referendum on Gordon Brown’s leadership to ensure the Labour party is really quite sure they want him around to fight the general election.
From the Times just now:
Geoff Hoon, the former Defence Secretary, and [...]

Thoughts on Britain’s Expenses Scandal

I haven’t really posted anything about the ongoing Parliamentary Expenses Scandal in Britain. While I have a great interest in British Politics and have been watching the story with great interest as it has played out – I generally avoid talking about British Politics on Anglotopia.
One reason really, I’m not British and it’s not [...]

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