Although the Vickers commission ultimately answers to an enraged British public, it may well find the solutions it seeks beyond Britain's borders.
But it is already clear that unemployment will strike hard far beyond America and Britain.
The London 2012 Olympics will show the world "beyond doubt that Britain can deliver", the prime minister has said.
Beyond a commitment to maintain Britain's nuclear deterrent, he said little about equipment.
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The ripple effect was felt far beyond the island nation, particularly in Britain and the Netherlands.
While it's unclear how badly this new legislation will effect Britain, one thing is beyond dispute: capping bankers' bonuses certainly isn't going to have the world's brightest financial minds rushing into London.
Green MP Caroline Lucas said Britain needed to ensure its role was "beyond reproach" and was "consistent, principled and more likely to do good than harm".
They are already falling in Spain and Ireland, and, beyond the euro zone, are starting to do so in Britain.
This threat also exists beyond the euro area, of course: banking liabilities in Britain, Switzerland and Denmark are four to five times larger than their national economies.
Clearly there is something going badly wrong with Britain's balance of payments which goes well beyond the slow pace of recovery in the eurozone - and has yet to be fully explained.
But misgivings in Britain about President Bush's foreign policy extend far beyond Blackburn's Muslim community.
In Britain, alas, it is painfully hard to see beyond the next election.
He also stressed Britain's continuing commitment to development aid to Afghanistan beyond 2014.
The turmoil appears to have sent jitters beyond Libya's borders, with the U.S. and Britain expressing concern over the prospects of continuous unrest in the North African country.
Prof David Reynolds, from the University of Cambridge and author of The American Occupation of Britain, says that personal contact with GIs quickly "penetrated beyond the movie image of glossy Americans into a discovery that they were human beings, warts and all".
So the call has gone out to everyone in Scotland and beyond - not forgetting that independence would affect people living and working in the rest of Britain as well - to contribute their views.
One response would be that the main cause of the French revolution lies outside Mr Garrioch's Paris and beyond the grasp of Mr Jones's elite: in the unrelenting global conflict with Britain that undermined the French state and thrust the country into increasingly unmanageable crises.
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The show is a hit in Britain, the U.S., Sweden, South Korea, Russia, Israel and beyond.
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Did her enquiries extend beyond the Daily Mail, which first published the story: " Migrant facing deportation wins right to stay in Britain... because he's got a cat"?
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