Trump and the British People: The Disconnect Couldn't Be Greater

"We know he’s a vain and self-absorbed man and to know that 250,000 people want to descend on central London and demonstrate against him will give him pause for thought," said one demonstrator.

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Threatened With Mass Expulsion, Italy's Roma Face An Uncertain Future

In a move echoing Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants to the U.S., Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has announced plans to deport all Roma who are in the country illegally.

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Europe Calls Into Question the Legality of Trump's Trade War

“These tariffs aren’t even legal under U.S. law, let alone World Trade Organization laws. It seems rather odd to be citing national security and targeting countries including your closest allies.”

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Testing Controversial Voter ID Rules, Britain Eyes An Uncertain Electoral Future

Some 4,000 voters across Bromley, Woking, Gosport, Watford and Swindon were turned away from the local election polling booths because they didn't have a bank card, driving license or passport.

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French Railway Strikes Spread As Workers and Students Protest New Labor Laws

“When the French feel they've been fooled, they don’t go home and have a cup of tea. They go in the street and fight."

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Britain Seeing Wide Gender Pay Gap As Company Reports Trickle In

Fewer than one in seven U.K. women earns more than her male counterpart in the same company. Men also take home £1 in bonuses for every 27 pence that women earn.

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Keep Calm and Starve: UK Government Strips Poor Children of School Lunches

The new measure will leave any family with a net annual income of less than £7,400 unable to claim a free lunch for their children during a school day. Around 1 million children are likely to suffer from the cut.

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As A Historic Freeze Sweeps Through Britain, Fuel Poverty Claims More Lives

Fuel poverty now kills more people in the U.K. than breast cancer and prostate cancer.

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After Surviving London's Grenfell Tower Disaster, Immigrants May Face Deportation

Undocumented migrants who survived the June blaze were offered an amnesty period of a year provided they applied before Jan. 31, 2018, but critics say the deadline was inadequately publicized and fearful residents now might not come forward with evidence.

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In Carillion Scandal and Its Cover-Up, Britons Again Accuse Their Government

Up until last week, Carillion was the second largest construction company in the U.K. Now, the outrageous debt and blacklisting scandal that toppled it have exposed the underbelly of Great Britain's costly fetish for privatization at any public cost.

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