"Britain" Blogs & Blog Posts

Ladderback chairs designed in 1903 by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) for  Glasgow Willow Tea-rooms came on the London market in 2014, and put me in mind of Glasgow businesswoman Kate Cranston ...

James Anderson was hailed as "Britain's kindest plumber" after posting hundreds of stories about his caring and wholesome activities. All fake, reports the BBC. And a grift: he structured his business as a social enteprise and used its funds for pers...

Oliver Wolf Sacks (1933-2015) was born in London, youngest of four sons of two Lithuanian Jewish doctors. Oliver spent most of his childhood in London, though his GP father and surgeon moth­er sent him to a rural boarding school for 4 years in WW2 t...

After a sound thrashing in local elections left them in third place behind Labour and Liberal Democrats, the U.K.'s governing Conservative party is doubling-down on culture war rhetoric: it plans to push through a ban on unisex toilets in new constru...

North Yorkshire Council is unilaterally altering English grammar because its database is frightened of apostrophes. Accordingly, the pesky punctuation marks are being removed from road signs going forward. St. Mary's Walk will be signposted as St Mar...

Noted businessman John Jacob Astor (1864-1912), who made his for­t­une in the fur trade, was 47 when the Titanic sank in April 1912. Acc­or­d­ing to survivor accounts, Astor didn’t believe the ship was in any kind of immed­iate danger. He hel...

Three year-old Saylor Class complained that there was a monster in her room. Her parents thought it was a figment of her imagination. It wasn't. It was 60000 bees. "We even gave her a bottle of water and said it was monster spray so that she could s...