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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:

10:46 AM, Aug 12, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Douglas Murray, writing in the Wall Street Journal:

10:33 AM, Aug 11, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Republican candidates in Iowa, preparing for tonight's debate, should take note of this video starring Michael Gove, a member of the British Parliament, clearing up some rubbish surrounding the protests in London:

8:01 AM, Aug 11, 2011 • By ROBIN SIMCOX

London—Trying to return to Hackney, five minutes from the heart of the protests, from vacation on the night the rioting was at its fiercest provided an insight into the carnage engulfing London. The city had been transformed into a kind of Alan Moore dystopia. Sirens were deafening, with bright lights blinding. Train operators announced gravely that there had been “civil unrest” across London, and that some areas of the city were no longer safe.

6:15 PM, Aug 9, 2011 • By ALEX DELLA ROCCHETTA

The riots in the United Kingdom continue for a fourth straight day. On Tuesday, Londoners awoke to torched cars and street scuffles in Ealing, police horses lining up in Lewisham, and stores and residences in flames in Tottenham. Prosperous boroughs in the capital now resemble war zones, as mobs continue to overwhelm police and loot stores. In the last twenty-four hours, disorder has also spread to cities across England, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, and Nottingham.