Politics of the United Kingdom
‘This is possibly our last vote and we’re going out to vote SNP’
After weeks of polls predicting a dead heat between the major parties, the UK’s Conservative Party stayed in power in a surprise landslide. But it’s not going to be business as usual in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party destroyed Labour and became the country’s dominant party overnight.
Scottish independence may have lost, but Britain may be changed forever
Many supporters of the “Yes” campaign were in tears after a decisive loss in Scotland’s independence vote. But London had to promise a raft of new local powers to keep Scotland in the UK, and those promises may change the nature of the British union for Northern Ireland, Wales and England, too.
Filmmaker Jon Ronson remembers the firebrand Northern Irish politician Ian Paisley
Controversial, belligerent and bigoted — those were some of the words used to describe the Reverend Ian Paisley, the Northern Irish political giant, after his death on Friday. Writer and filmmaker Jon Ronson spent a week making a documentary about Paisley and came away from it with respect for the man many hated.
Britain could strip citizenship from those who join Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria
The debate between security and civil liberties continues to heat up in the UK. More than 500 British citizens have reportedly gone to fight in Syria and Iraq, and the government wants to increase measures to make sure they don’t bring violence with them when they return home.