Geography Archives: Britain

THE triumph of the City of London, the one square kilometre next to Liverpool Street station that houses the citadel of British finance, is complete.

The most intriguing question with regard to Liz Truss’ resignation as the prime minister of Britain after a mere 44 days in office is this: what is it about her economic programme that the “market” (read “finance capital”) found unpalatable?

For those of you who aren’t British, you might not have kept up with what happened to the once almost-prime minister Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party over the past few years. Here’s a 30-second, way to reductive rundown. Jeremy Corbyn is like Britain’s Bernie Sanders, except more left-wing. And he never gave 135 speeches […]

The most obvious explanation to the mysterious air dash of the UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace to Washington on Tuesday could be that he was canvassing for the support of the Biden Administration for his pitch to succeed Liz Truss as Britain’s next prime minister.

This year is the centenary of the March on Rome, the coup that brought Mussolini’s fascist party to power in Italy in 1922.

The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea’s Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone.

THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

On Saturday, over 100,000 people joined the protests called by the Enough is Enough Campaign across the country. Protests were also held on Sunday in front of the Tory party conference in Birmingham.

Simon Hannah reports on the mounting crisis for British capitalism.

This summer’s strikes in Britain and the announcement by the RMT’s Mick Lynch that ‘the working class is back’ will have sent a collective shudder through the ranks of the establishment.

Liz Truss, the UK’s new prime minister, is the most anti-China British leader in decades. In the Conservative leadership contest that brought her to power, candidates competed to show who could be more belligerent against Beijing.

Labour officials laughed after learning that a member expelled for alleged anti-Semitism had died.

Just as the British rulers used to refer to political prisoners during their rule as ‘terrorists,’ the rulers of today also call people imprisoned for opposing them ‘terrorists’.

After a quarter century of economic stagnation, African economic recovery early in the 21st century was under great pressure even before the pandemic, due to new trade arrangements, falling commodity prices and severe environmental stress.

When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.

A public call to ban The Grayzone by a UK Foreign Office veteran and psy-ops specialist confirms the malign intentions of British intelligence.

The rail workers’ leader offers the most visible opposition to Britain’s Tory government.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the buffoonish British PM as one of Ukraine’s closest allies. If and when Johnson leaves office, he is tipped for a role as Ukraine Envoy.

According to the head of macro analysis at Saxo Bank, the only thing holding back the UK economy from turning into an emerging economy country, given the inflation and political instability, is the lack of a currency crisis.

Last month, British Home Secretary Priti Patel approved Assange’s extradition to the U.S., where he faces 175 years imprisonment under the Espionage Act for publishing true information exposing American war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.