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8:12 AM, Jan 22, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is moving to London to avoid France's high taxes, according to a report in the British Daily Mail. The move would mean that Sarkozy, along with his wife, Carla Bruni, would avoid France's top tax rate of 75 percent.

Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing to move to London to set up a billion pounds plus investment fund," reports the Mail. "If the move goes ahead, the controversial Frenchman will become the latest to escape a potential top tax rate of 75 per cent in his home country. He and his former supermodel third wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would be likely to settle in an affluent district like South Kensington – so becoming the most high profile Gallic celebrity couple in the city."

But the Mail suggests, in the end, this move might not happen. "But the former president is under investigation for corruption in France, and if he does cross the Channel there will be outrage. Details of the planned move were uncovered during a raid by fraud police on Sarkozy’s Paris mansion last June. It came within weeks of Mr Sarkozy losing his immunity against prosecution after being defeated by Socialist rival Francois Hollande in the May presidential election."

4:01 PM, Jul 25, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Barack Obama's reelection campaign has seized on this blind quotation in today's edition of the British newspaper the Telegraph:

7:25 AM, Jul 24, 2012 • By STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Last week, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report and held hearings on the giant British-based HSBC bank. HSBC Holdings was ranked as the sixth-largest public company in the world by Forbes in 2011, with assets of $2.5 trillion.

12:53 PM, Jun 1, 2012 • By THERESA CIVANTOS

The British government, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, recently introduced a new initiative offering first-time parents relationship counseling, childcare classes, and advice via email and text message – all subsidized by the National Health Service, Department of Health, and Department for Education.

11:44 AM, Dec 14, 2011 • By ZACK MUNSON

With still about a month until its American release, controversy is beginning to swirl around the new Harvey Weinstein produced Margaret Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady. That a Hollywood film about the life of one of the 20^th Century’s great conservatives might play fast and loose with the facts should certainly come as no surprise.

4:04 PM, Nov 29, 2011 • By ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian “parliament” voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. The attack—complete with an invasion of the grounds, looting, and a brief hostage-taking—is an always useful reminder of the nature of the regime in Tehran. These are thugs, whatever their religious titles.

The American Civil War from the vantage point of London.

Oct 17, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 05 • By JONATHAN LEAF

Mark Twain once said that it was more interesting to talk to Civil War veterans about battles than to chat with poets about the moon as the versifiers had not ordinarily been to the moon.

11:00 AM, Sep 22, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

New York, New York—"Until we have a resolution to see, Daniel, the United Kingdom is not answering that question and you will not evoke another answer, I know, from another authoritative source from the United Kingdom delegation,” Alistair Burt, a member of Parliament and a member of the UK delegation to the U.N., tells me in response to a question about whether his nation will support the Palestinian bid for statehood this week.

10:21 AM, Jul 15, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

The Henry Jackson Society yesterday released an important report titled, “The Tipping Point: British National and the UK’s Future World Role.” The report is written by sitting Tory MP Bernard Jenkin and HJS director of global security George Grant.

6:00 PM, Apr 24, 2011 • By EMILY SCHULTHEIS

With all of the hubbub leading up to the royal wedding this week, it is hard not to get excited about the nuptials of the future queen! Check out Samantha Sault’s take on Kate Middleton’s effect on British Fashion Week, from our March 28^th issue:

An exchange.

4:58 PM, Apr 21, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

In response to Charlotte Hays's piece on the blog yesterday ("Royal Marriage: Ordinary People?"), a reader sends this letter to the editor:

1:07 PM, Apr 20, 2011 • By CHARLOTTE HAYS

Jerry Seinfeld’s snide remarks on the upcoming royal nuptials have offended the Brits—and me.

The mortal implications of man’s place in nature.

Apr 4, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 28 • By LAWRENCE KLEPP

The Immortalization Commission Science and the Strange Quest

to Cheat Death

by John Gray

The British government is reportedly set to make one of KSM’s operatives a wealthy man.

11:45 AM, Nov 17, 2010 • By THOMAS JOSCELYN

Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detainees as part of an out-of-court lawsuit settlement:

It's a seductive argument -- especially when important facts are omitted.

10:48 AM, Jul 16, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

“Appeasement” became a dirty word only after the 1930s. Paul Kennedy, a professor of history at Yale University, has long been interested in resurrecting its honorable side, and he takes another crack at the task in the latest issue of the National Interest.

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