#parliament

The British government is the executive: the prime minister, the ministers who run departments, and the permanent civil service that…

The Palace of Westminster stretches for nearly a thousand feet along the Thames, and it is the definitive image of…

Parliament is where British law is made, and its structure differs from the American system in one fundamental way: the…

Big Ben is the most photographed object in Britain and almost everybody calls it by the wrong name — including,…