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… was such that the presence of a hostile, major naval force in the eastern Mediterranean represented a direct threat to British interests. It followed that defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I and breaking its residual naval power was critical. The British, as was show...

…s, have come forward with allegations that he molested them when they were under-age. The allegations first surfaced in British newspapers, which have zeroed in on Epstein's friendship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tried to publicly disassociate himself from his old pal. I...

…t Gore and the then Mrs. Gore. In her first affidavit to the court she repeats the claim that she had earlier sold to a British tabloid: namely that "former President Bill Clinton was present on the island [Jeffrey Epstein's private island] at a time when [Jane Doe #3] was also p...

…n also has a long relationship with the family of disgraced press baron, Robert Maxwell, another reliable target of the British press.) Flimsy and far-fetched court filings in the U.S. by settlement-hungry plaintiffs might be discounted by skeptical U.S. reporters, but, the U.K....

…e Nightmare Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister To door not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the pro...

…number of Jews allowed in was severely limited, the ship, with 4,500 Jewish refugees from Europe, tried to get through. British forces boarded it, killed three people, wounded dozens and essentially destroyed the ship as it listed in Haifa harbor. The British ultimately sent the...

…request files from other services cooperating with U.S. intelligence. By way of example, he described one file from the British GCHQ cipher service that he copied, stole and provided to other parties. It exposed a legally-authorized British operation to collect electronic data on...

…n also has a long relationship with the family of disgraced press baron, Robert Maxwell, another reliable target of the British press.) Flimsy and far-fetched court filings in the U.S. by settlement-hungry plaintiffs might be discounted by skeptical U.S. reporters, but, the U.K....

…port/freedom-world/freedom-world-2016. 3. See, among others, Steve Rosenberg, “Russian Media’s Love Affair with Trump,” British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), November 2, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37837432. 4. Javier Corrales, “Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela,”...

296 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS These precise tips for evading U.S. and British surveillance were not accidentally leaked. Snowden supplied them in written answers to interrogatives sent to him by Poitras and Appelbaum in May 2013 while he was still on the NSA payroll. He als...

…ctro-mechanical machines made this method redundant, and code-breaking had become the domain of mathematical minds. The British, French, and American intelligence agencies were all hard at work deciphering the German codes, but only the Polish group, motivated by the imminent thr...

studied math since I was 14 (such is, or was, the way of the British educational system), I received a package at home via messenger. It was a book: “Math for idiots.” So he is not without humor, even though he doesn’t drink or smoke, and hates restaurants. “Jeffrey knows a goo...

…s, have come forward with allegations that he molested them when they were under-age. The allegations first surfaced in British newspapers, which have zeroed in on Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andrew, who has recently tried to publicly disassociate himself from his old pal....

…iR4%7C1_1dXO6dY8JDP%7C1_jvMiyyezdfj%7C1_1nuMS3vMEnQ%7C1_8KxOQczUk1m&ty=1&ty_data=34fThpaBiR4&uid=aCOK0CLsX1Z&v=0> When British Airways Flight 38 was about to crash short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, why did the pilot or first officer yell out "speed bird, speed bird" just...

Speedbird is the callsign of British Airways, referring to the stylized bird logo. Captain Peter Burkill of British Airways 38 explains his radio call, “Speedbird, Speedbird... Read More » What do Brits think of France? Se Nate White, Drinks coffee. Writes copy. I'll be hones...