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BRUSSELS (AP) — Britain, France and Germany said Thursday they oppose a hefty rise in the European Union’s 2011 budget, insisting that austerity in member countries should trigger moderation in EU outlays. (more)

Given some of the headlines, one would be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that the UK’s treasury secretary, George Osborne, has just catapulted himself into conservative folklore as the man who finally took an axe — rather than a scalpel — to public spending. (more)

Daniel Hannan is the author of the new book,”The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America.” The pro-American British politician is currently a Member of the European Parliament. (more)

LONDON (Reuters) – Anti-terrorism police, on high alert during a visit by Pope Benedict to the British capital, arrested six men on Friday on suspicion of preparing an attack. (more)

LONDON (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI wraps up his visit to Britain with the beatification Sunday of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th century Anglican convert held up by the pope as a model for the faithful because he followed his conscience at great personal cost. (more)

If Republicans want to win back the presidency in 2012, they should hope to lose the midterm elections in November. (more)

LONDON — The Obama administration might be reasserting the government’s place in American life. But on this side of the Atlantic, the so-called Big Society vision of Britain’s new Conservative prime minister is of a nation with minimal state interference. (more)

David Cameron is still paying the price for his remarks about Britain being the “junior partner” to the U.S. in the “special relationship.” During a town hall meeting in Hove yesterday he was accused by a pensioner of “denigrating” his country. Cameron responded immediately by conceding that he misspoke when he used the date of  “1940” during his “junior partner” interview with Sky News on his trip to the States. But that didn’t assuage the pensioner. His previous corrections as to the date have also fallen on deaf ears. The critics actually care little, I suspect, whether Cameron was talking about 1940 or the 1940s and beyond. (more)

KALAM, Pakistan (AP) — U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. (more)

LONDON (AP) — In just a few days, new Prime Minister David Cameron has openly declared Britain is no more than the “junior partner” of the U.S., irritated Israelis by calling Gaza a prison camp and enraged Pakistanis by suggesting their country exports terrorism. (more)

Speaking in Turkey on Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron slammed Israel and called Gaza a “prison camp.” (Apparently Gaza is the first prison camp with luxury shopping malls.) The British Foreign Office has been taking the blame for this betrayal of Israel, but they’re claiming they were as surprised as anyone. Now, a high-placed and knowledgeable source has informed me that it was Obama’s people who put the slamming of Israel into Cameron’s speech. (more)

Washington (CNN) — British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday that he “completely understands” the anger that “exists … across America” regarding the oil well operated by BP that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico three months ago. (more)

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged the American people Tuesday not to assume that oil giant BP persuaded the Scottish government to release the Lockerbie bomber from prison a year ago, saying the company deserves blame for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but that there is no evidence of wrongdoing in an attempt to gain access to oil fields off Libya’s coast. (more)

David Cameron today responded to mounting US pressure for a full UK government inquiry into the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi by revealing that he has asked the cabinet secretary to decide whether further relevant papers should be published. (more)

In an effort to defuse what will likely be the biggest point of contention in their Tuesday White House meeting, British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to tell President Obama that the release of convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi was “wrong.” (more)

(Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron will announce soon he is setting up an inquiry into allegations British security services were complicit in torture of terrorism suspects overseas, the BBC reported on Tuesday. (more)

TORONTO – If there’s one takeaway snapshot from the gathering of the world’s economic powers here this weekend, it will be President Barack Obama, last year’s new kid on the block, shaking hands with British Prime Minister David Cameron, the new, new kid on the block. (more)

LONDON — Setting the scene for years of potential strife with the powerful public-sector unions and their allies in the Labour Party, Britain’s new coalition government on Tuesday unveiled the most severe package of spending cuts and tax increases since the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s era. (more)

LONDON (AP) — America’s allies in the fight to stabilize Afghanistan are hoping that the ouster of Stanley McChrystal as commander of international forces there still leaves the general’s strategy intact, officials and analysts said Wednesday. (more)

Since President Barack Obama took office, the U.S.-U.K. “special relationship” has been in free fall. The first manifestation of this decline, shortly after the President’s inauguration, was Obama’s sudden return of the Winston Churchill bust from the Oval Office, loaned to the U.S. by the British people as a gesture of solidarity after 9/11. A series of incidents followed. Now, the British even see the Obama administration’s treatment of BP in the wake of the Gulf oil spill in this light. Rough periods in the relationship are nothing new, but this one is different and likely will prove very difficult to undo, if it isn’t already too late. (more)