The European Union rescinded a two-decade-old regulation in an attempt to end what it calls unnecessary marketing standards. "Bureaucrats are telling us what's a perfect peach, and I think that a perfect peach is actually a very elusive thing, and it doesn't always have to do with how it looks at all," food columnist Diane Henry says. The rules against misshapen produce are followed more stringently in some EU member states than in others. "I have to say that the problem in Britain with this is that we seem to me to be quite law-abiding," she says. "I go to France and I go to Portugal, and they don't care what shape their tomatoes are, and they don't care what shape their cucumbers are. They seem to think, 'Well, it's just laws and we'll break them.' That's quite the Mediterranean spirit in a way, but in Britain we tend to slavishly follow [the rules]." - NPR.org

Local staff members at the British Embassy in Tehran have been arrested, the Foreign Office in London told CNN Sunday, confirming earlier reports from Iran's government-backed Press TV. Last week, Tehran expelled two British diplomats. London responded by kicking out two Iranian envoys. Iran then recalled its ambassador to Britain, saying it would reconsider its diplomatic ties with the United Kingdom. -CNN.com

OPINION - The underlying rationale Obama's foreign policy is the ending of American sovereignty. The progressive classes in Britain and Europe have signed up to this idea for years. Dubbed ‘transnational progressivism’, it is based on the belief that the nation state is in and of itself the cause of all the ills of the world, from prejudice to war. Nations cause nationalism; nationalism causes conflict; abolish nations and you abolish conflict and usher in the brotherhood of man. - SPECTATOR.co.uk

In 1920, Great Britain was given the responsibility to oversee the Mandate over Palestine with the express intention of reconstituting within its territory a Jewish National Home. At the last minute, four-fifths of the territory was given to Israel's enemies. This betrayal was a devastating blow to the Jewish and Zionist leadership, which now saw the promised Jewish homeland reduced to a sliver. - AMERICAN THINKER