The death of Margaret Thatcher has set off celebrations among her opponents, these in turn attracting a torrent of criticism from her supporters. Read more

Britain’s media has rounded on the pair of foolish Australian DJs, almost as a man, in blaming them for the suicide of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha. Strangely – or perhaps not – it hasn’t seen it fit to examine its own role in this appalling tragedy. Read more

One of the problems with the way authorities have handled the London Metropolitan University (LMU) fiasco is the general lack of credible information. Neither the UK Border Agency nor the LMU knows or will let out the exact number of Indians among the 2,600-odd international students who are affected by the decision to revoke LMU’s power to grant student visas. Read more

For around 100 years there have been moves to reform Britain’s upper house of parliament, the House of Lords. Now at last, as a result of a push by the previous Labour governments, MPs in the House of Commons will be voting on a timetable for reform. Read more

One of the reasons Labour lost the 2010 general election to the Conservatives, some pundits hold, is that it was out of step with the general mood on immigration. Read more

There’s growing talk in Europe about the reported political ambitions of Pascal Lamy, the Frenchman who heads the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO). There are implications for India and BRICS. Read more

There’s a phony war being whipped up over the £280m worth of British aid that goes to India every year, and both India and Britain should be very careful about how they respond. It is being whipped up by a small number of MPs belonging to the ruling coalition’s Conservative party, a few right wing pro-Conservative newspapers and rent-a-quote pressure groups. Read more

Rickie Sehgal, the Indian businessman with Conservative Party links, was in all probability merely boasting when he allegedly told an undercover British reporter he could get him David Cameron’s mobile (cell) phone number if he joined his elite club of South Asian Tory supporters. The price? A mere £10,000 a year, apparently. Read more

It is hard to come across a nation that is as self-obsessed as Britain. What do Britons think of Britain? And how do others view Britain? These are questions that crop up with a frequency that would be unimaginable in India, and many other countries. Who ask these questions – and why – is one for another blog. Read more

Discussions at an India-focussed event last week – privately-organised at the House of Commons – turned disappointingly rancorous after suggestions were made from the stage that both India and ethnic Indians living in Britain ought to be doing more to remember their war-dead in the two World Wars. Read more