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Background: Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth's surface. The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. As one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a founding member of NATO, and of the Commonwealth, the UK pursues a global approach to foreign policy; it currently is weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it chose to remain outside the Economic and Monetary Union for the time being. Constitutional reform is also a significant issue in the UK. The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly were established in 1999, but the latter is suspended due to bickering over the peace process.




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I discovered today that there are two Christie's. Christie B.C. (Before Coffee) is currently a morose, unenergised, tired and crabby person. Christie A.C. (After Coffee) is a chatty, happy, speed demon ... As much as I love the coffee we've been getting at Costa's (the mugs come with two handles, one either side because they're too big and heavy to lift with one hand) I think the caffeine is having an effect on Chrisite, and until we get our morning hit, things aren't the cheeriest. The other [View Full Entry]

jkd - John Dawson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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We set off today with muted enthusiasm. OK we were both pretty tuckered out. First stop was a bike shop down the road where we picked up another new inner tube for Christie's bike, then spent 30 minutes changing her tyre. We didn't get 2 miles down the road before I noticed Christie was already three or four hundred metres behind me. I stopped and waited, and her explanation was that her head just wasn't in it today, she was ready to stop already. We perservered, I told her it would be OK onc [View Full Entry]

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For a long time people have been trying to prove or disprove God's existence. Well I've done it. If God existed then scotish flies wouldn't, because no benevolent, all-knowing and wise creator would EVER create those bloody things. I've never been so close insanity. I mean, midges, I can survive, leaches, nothing ... but those flies, shiver ... We woke at our (favourite) campsite this morning to the pungent smell of sewerage. yes, that great screeching machine next to us was a sewerage t [View Full Entry]

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I was playing a bizarre game of Scrabble in a hostel in Norfolk with a guy from Northern Ireland, a woman from Northampton and a South African. None of them had ever played before and despite me repeating the rules countless times they thought they could they could spell words backwards and count the extra scores every time a new word was added. The Irishman's first word was whore and he attempted to put wog down as his second. But he did come up with one useful suggestion after I told him about my trip. "Why don't you go to Northern [View Full Entry]

Bicycle Diaries - Jonny Muir | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 17th 2006 | 180 Views | [diary=74665]

Awful weather in the Scottish borders
Among the clouds on southern Scotland's highest mountain