Great Britain is coming to terms with the brutal slaying of a British soldier on a London street in an attack after which one of the perpetrators addressed a video camera saying ‘an eye for an eye…you people will never be safe,’ claiming the act of terror was a reprisal for British interference in the affairs of Muslim countries.
Channel 4′s Home Affairs Correspondent in Great Britain, Darshna Soni, looks at how events unfolded in Woolwich through the eyes of those on the street who were caught up in it all, and witnessed Islamic extremists ramming and then hacking up a British soldier with meat cleavers.
Meanwhile, the radical Muslim cleric who taught and influenced the terrorists — former Al-Muhajiroun leader Anjem Choudary — refused to accept any personal responsibility for the bizarre and brutal murder, seeking instead to blame the British government because it has sent troops to fight in Afghanistan. The question remains: Why isn’t Choudary rotting in a jail cell? He’s nothing more than a common thug and criminal masquerading as a cleric.
The bikini jelly party held every year at Great Britain’s Cambridge University has been cancelled this year. The all-male drinking society, the Wyverns, usually recruits two female students to wrestle with each other, and the winner receives money as a prize.
London is the most heavily monitored city in the world — with one CCTV camera in place for every 14 residents. But is this intense surveillance making London a safer place to live? Journeyman Pictures reports.
What a change from 1927, when filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene shot these early color cityscapes around London as part of his travelogue THE OPEN ROAD.
It all started a long time ago in a galaxy far away, but next year the Star Wars franchise moves to Britain after a package of attractive tax breaks provided a temptation the film’s makers couldn’t resist.
Violinist Nigel Kennedy tells how fellow students at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey told him they were abused by the musical director, amid claims that teachers had sexual relations with pupils in Great Britain’s five elite music schools. Ciaran Jenkins reports for Channel 4.
Archaeologists have recently made a surprising claim regarding Stonehenge. An excavation from a nearby site, about a mile from the stone structures, seems to provide evidence that Stonehenge was continuously occupied as early as 7,500 B.C. That’s about 5,000 years earlier than what was previously believed.
Following the death of Margaret Thatcher at age 87, here’s a look back at her political career, including rare clips from the 1950s. Before becoming Great Britain’s prime minister, Thatcher served as leader of the Tory Party, the first woman to head a political party anywhere in the Western world. She served three terms as prime minister, during which time she won the Falklands War, endured and defeated the 1984 Miners’ strike and survived an assassination attempt by the IRA.
EPA bureaucrats are getting more intrusive all the time, but it’s hard to picture today’s environmental inspectors invading anyone’s personal space quite so insidiously as British comedian Spike Milligan in his 1973 TV special “Milligan in Summer.”
