How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation

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The proposals will also amend the guidance on low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) to ensure they are only implemented where there is “local consent” and stop councils ushering in so-called “15 minute cities” if they are deemed to overly restrict driving. As the 20th century dawned Britain is one of the greatest powers on earth, it rules over this vast global empire. I mean it's so big that every fourth person on earth owes its allegiance to the British crown. Archive Clip: "Canada became an immense training school a school where the pupils had to learn the grim game of spreading death in the skies."

How Britain Really Works, by Stig Abell - Financial Times

We often think of America as the arsenal of democracy building and producing so much war material. But in early 1940 they weren't in the war yet and actually Britain was relying on places within its empire to help to build its production facilities. Archive Clip: "These men and women living all over the world are helping to fill the shopping basket of the British housewife." It agonized over whether to support Russia and France. I think at the heart of Britain's anxieties it came down really to Britain fearing German domination of Europe because if a victorious but hostile Germany dominated the continent and threatened Britain's position in the world that was just intolerable for Britain.

The most divisive issue, however, was that of Home Rule for Ireland. Some people in Ireland wanted to be ruled from Dublin rather than Westminster, while others were bitterly opposed to this, including some vocal British politicians and a sizable contingent in the north of Ireland who considered themselves to be British. As the Home Rule Bill made its way through parliament, rival militias began to arm themselves on either side of the issue. There's this huge inequality of wealth that underpins British life at the turn of the 20th century. Only two-thirds of men have got the right to vote, absolutely no woman has the right to vote. So I'd say by the time you get to 1914 this is quite a volatile country. Britain really initially admired this new nation, Britain really actually thought as a friend but imperial Germany soon began to threaten Britain's sense of supremacy. Its determination to up its industrial output, up its military strength, and most crucially for Britain build a rival fleet of warships. MD5 of a better version of this file (if applicable). Fill this in if there is another file that closely matches this file (same edition, same file extension if you can find one), which people should use instead of this file. If you know of a better version of this file outside of Anna’s Archive, then please upload it. I still keep the first school prize I ever won on my bookshelf, a junior encyclopedia produced in 1964 by Readers’ Digest. Half a century on it remains one of the most useful volumes in my possession. The compendium of items, ranging from a simple description of the solar system through a list of the names of the kings and queens of England (still accurate after all these years) to the geography of the Americas, spells out in simple, rapid prose, all that the busy journalist needs to know about each topic. Sometimes we don’t have to read more than a sentence to get the picture we need.

Stig Abell - Fantastic Fiction

So did Britain really stand alone against Nazi Germany? How much did the empire contribute to allied victory? And did that contribution cause the empire to crumble after the second world war? The Briton was the world's merchant sailor, his flag encircled the globe sixty percent of the vessels on any ocean were his. This is a formal greeting and not an invitation for commentary on a person’s quality of life. Don’t take literally and reply truthfully, with a list of ailments. Britain simply couldn't have fought the Second World War without its Empire. Rather than standing alone against the Nazis the manpower, factories, raw materials, money, and global supply chain of the Empire kept Britain in the fight. But there is another side to this story.Other plans will see cars being allowed to enter bus lanes more frequently with the Department for Transport strengthening guidance around bus lanes to “ensure bus lanes only operate when necessary”. Referring to the concept’s ambition to make everyday essentials bike friendly – he vowed to make sure drivers are not “aggressively restricted”.

Suella Braverman Archives – Byline Times

However, people were also forced to enlist. Sometimes local leaders were given a quota of men they had to fill and there are examples of men who were literally kidnapped and taken away to join the army.Austria-Hungary sets out to punish Serbia it wants to quash support for Serbian nationalism. It's encouraged by its ally Germany. So after Serbia failed to meet the terms of a very draconian ultimatum Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and this act of war this stirs up these old tensions and anxieties right across the continent because it draws in supporters and allies on both sides. You've got Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy and you've got France Russia and to some extent Britain. There's still no immediate reason for war between the two, it would take a crisis to turn tensions into an armed conflict. Indian independence groups use this as evidence against the supposed invincibility of British rule. Widespread food shortages culminated in a devastating famine in Bengal that was largely ignored by the British. The imprisonment of thousands of Indians for political resistance fueled the demand for Britain to quit India. The Crisis in British Journalism Byline Times investigates media monopolies, their proximity to politicians, and how the punditocracy doesn’t hold power to account