Despite funding cuts and shuttered venues, homegrown music, TV, film and, yes, memes have dominated the global zeitgeist over the past 12 years. Now this culture must be future-proofed from the forces ...

LONDON—The British have famously strict etiquette for queuing. Dare cut in line here and you’ll quickly be met with scorn, or at least a tut. But there is one place where forming a single line has ...

There is a joke about heaven and hell, and the positions various European nationalities would fill in each; it's a bit too involved to tell here, but the gist of it is that, in hell, the cooks are ...

Emerging in the wake of the Margaret Thatcher era, the Young British Artists (YBAs) and their contemporaries embraced shock, ...

When you think of British culture, there are usually certain things that instantly spring to mind. There are things that are deeply rooted in British culture; we just assume that that’s where they ...

The Rock of Gibraltar has long been a key navigational and strategic location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Fondly referred to as 'The Rock', the limestone monolith that ...

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places. By Paul Collier. Allen Lane; 304 pages; £25. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in August; $32 The Changing Electoral Map of England and ...

After being locked down, socially distanced, and restricted from traveling abroad, many people are booking “revenge travel” and planning to get back to their favorite destinations. In fact, just ...

Four female fashion models, who are wearing some pieces from Mary Quant's new autumn/winter collection, London, May 1975 Four female fashion models, who are wearing some pieces from Mary Quant's new ...

A sample of human coronavirus (catalogue number 2008101v) will set you back £282 ($347). Browse on through the catalogue and it offers you the chance to buy a dose of Herpes simplex virus and cowpox ...