Quick response to some commenters: Thank you for pointing out that the 1979 vote was, of course, for devolution rather than for full independence. You're right. This was a slip, and I've corrected the ...

NOTCOMICS: Today, July the 4th, is England's Independence Day. The day in which the government in its infinite wisdom has stated that pubs can open again. Bars, restaurants, the lot. Some have, some ...

A Scottish Saltire flag (L) and a Union flag of the United Kingdom fly above Standard Life House in Edinburgh, Scotland February 27, 2014. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) ...

Sussex County, England — A second parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found. In England, of all places. It’s a remarkable discovery because the only other parchment manuscript ...

John Curtice is co-editor of the British Social Attitudes 30th report. Partial funding for the 2012 Scottish Social Attitudes data reported here was generously provided by the Economic and Social ...

Somehow, a second handwritten parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence wound up not in the United States, but England. Two Harvard researchers, who had announced the finding in April, ...

LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The Bank of England's top brass defended their record on Britain's monetary policy on Thursday, after a cabinet minister talked openly about diluting the central bank's ...