21 h. ago These Americans Went Looking for the Britain Found Onscreen. They Found a Different Story.

These Americans Went Looking for the Britain Found Onscreen. They Found a Different Story.  The New York Times

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49 h. ago ‘We were speaking English, but not the same language’: What happens when an American falls in love with a Brit

Lena Dunham’s Netflix romcom ‘Too Much’ centres on a New Yorker who gets together with a British musician, and all the cultural and linguistic differences that come with that. US writer Amanda Whiting, who met her husband at university in the UK, opens up about the experience of falling for someone in (British) English

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2 w. ago Full list of countries where drivers need a permit to take a road trip

A wide variety of countries have different rules for British travellers hoping to drive while on holiday

Transport

2 w. ago 'I'm a Brit living in Spain and was startled by how different life here is'

A woman who has spent nearly four years living abroad in Spain has shared the biggest culture shocks she has experienced after moving country - and there's some she still can't get her head around

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2 w. ago Oasis and Blur are battling it out on stage in Cardiff in 2026

The Britpop feud continues 30 years later, although this time on a different kind of stage.

Events

3 w. ago How 'proven winner' Andy Farrell became British Lions head coach despite first tour disaster

Andy Farrell arrives in Australia as one of the pre-eminent international head coaches in world rugby - but things were very different for the British and Irish Lions' coach on his first tour as part of a very different Lions side

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3 w. ago Tourist mocks 'major' difference between UK and EU queue at Spanish airport

An Irish tourist has shared a video of his 'superior' travel experience as he simply waltzed through an empty passport control line while Brits queued up at Malaga Airport

Society

3 w. ago Tourist teases Brits because of difference between EU and UK queue at Spanish airport

Irish comedian Peter Flanagan arrived in Malaga Airport and recorded himself zooming past a queue of Brits who were waiting for non-EU border control

Society

3 w. ago The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain

From buzzards in Oxfordshire to cranes in Kent – how once common birds left their mark in British place namesOld place names recall old ways of belonging. They often reference characteristics of the land or its use, the people who lived there, or the non-human lives they were enmeshed with. A great many of these vivifying genii loci are birds, although their identities aren’t always obvious because language evolves over time. We need a guide.Enter Michael Warren: teacher of English, amateur ornithologist and a man who lives in a Britain different to the one most of us inhabit: a medieval one, which by some magic has “survived in another dimension parallel to our own”. The gift he bestows in this gorgeous book is that, by the end, we live there too, newly able to read the growth rings of place, and to perceive an alternative land shimmering over the one we already know. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago AI decides which UK city has the sexist accent to make Brits horny

Accent AI Software Sanas analysed Google search data in the US for 12 different regional British dialects to discover which ones Americans were searching for the most

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