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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Catherine Mayer ## Catherine Mayer Articles 53Collections 2 *  Feb 12, 2015 ### [The Men Who Would Be King](https://time.com/3706682/the-men-who-would-be-king/) The ties that bind Prince Charles and his sons [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 9, 2015 ### [Prince Charles to Stress Christian Suffering in Saudi Arabia](https://time.com/3700684/prince-charles-saudi-arabia/) The Prince of Wales is also likely to ask for clemency for a jailed Saudi blogger and two women arre... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 29, 2015 ### [Boris Johnson’s Quest for 10 Downing Street](https://time.com/3687301/boris-johnsons-quest-for-10-downing-street/) He’s the mayor of London, and the joker of U.K. politics. But he wants to be the next prime minister... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 27, 2015 ### [Putin's 'Mafia State' Under Examination in U.K. Inquest Into Spy's Radioactive Death](https://time.com/3683785/litvinenko-inquest-london/) The High Court in London opens a 10-week hearing into the 2006 death of the former Russian intellige... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 22, 2015 ### [Boris](https://time.com/3678249/boris/) He’s the mayor of London, and the joker of U.K. politics. But Boris Johnson has his eyes set on 10 D... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jan 20, 2015 ### [Why Taking a Page Out of a U.K. Tabloid Is Good for Women](https://time.com/3674684/sun-page3-is-no-more/) Britain's biggest tabloid, Rupert Murdoch's the Sun, plans to retire its regular feature show... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 7, 2015 ### [_Je Suis Charlie_: Crowds in London Stand With _Charlie Hebdo_](https://time.com/3658499/london-crowds-unity-charlie-hebdo/) People protesting the Paris killings met in Trafalgar Square as British Prime Minister David Cameron... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 22, 2014 ### [A Spare Heir](https://time.com/3643819/a-spare-heir/) Sorry, George, there's a new royal in town [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 22, 2014 ### [Europe Plays Out Its Anxieties](https://time.com/3643787/europe-plays-out-its-anxieties/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 17, 2014 ### [In Praise of Jennifer Aniston and Other 'Selfish' Childfree Women](https://time.com/3637407/jennifer-aniston-childless-selfish/) 'Tis the season for tipsy truths and one of these is that women do better when they focus on their c... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 1, 2014 ### [The Killing of This Student Teacher Has Galvanized Germany](https://time.com/3611517/tugce-albayrak-germany-killing/) More than 141,000 people have signed a petition demanding a posthumous medal for Tugce Albayrak, a 2... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 25, 2014 ### [Pope Urges Europe to Accept Migrants and Reject Hunger](https://time.com/3604648/pope-francis-european-parliament/) The Pontiff uses address to the European Parliament to argue that migrants need "acceptance and assi... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 21, 2014 ### [Why a British Politician Resigned Over This Tweeted Photograph](https://time.com/3599163/uk-politics-tweet/) The image showed a house, a van and English flags. What's so controversial about that? [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 19, 2014 ### [Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It's Captain Euro](https://time.com/3594520/captain-euro-european-union-superhero/) But is he in time to save the European Union and the world? [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 19, 2014 ### [Terrorism Suspects to be Excluded From U.K Even If It's Their Home](https://time.com/3594021/u-k-isis-al-qaeda-exclude-citizens-syria-and-iraq/) Counter-terrorism legislation aims to halt jihadis who want to come home from Syria and Iraq [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/catherine-mayer/","name":"Catherine Mayer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/catherine-mayer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/catherine-mayer/"},"name":"Catherine Mayer","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/catherine-mayer/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```