the UK
Boris Johnson Can't Escape the Clown Suit Straitjacket He Made for Himself
A review of Boris as foreign minister, and human gaffe.
Winston Churchill Was a Racist Warmonger Who Tried to Sterilize the Mentally Ill
The "British Bulldog" is celebrated as a defeater of Nazis and champion of democracy. But he also hated Indian people, loved eugenics, and advocated for poison gas.
We Asked People Cleaning for the Queen What Other Grubby Stuff They Would Do for Her
Picking up litter for her, for no money, surely isn't where this ends. How far are some of her subjects willing to go for the old girl?
The UK Is Firing Shots at Cyprus’s Beloved Halloumi
Cyprus is applying to protect and monopolize on the production of halloumi cheese, but UK cheesemakers argue that their stuff is low-quality, industrial junk.
Avocados Are About to Get Way More Expensive
The UK, where avocado sales have climbed by 25 percent in the last year alone, is getting it the worst.
The EU Remains at Odds with Its Members Over the Safety of GM Food
The great GMO debate rages on as the EU shuts down draft legislature that would allow individual European nations to ban the use of GM food or animal feed.
Pure Fat Is Officially the Best New Food Product in the UK
Top honors at this week's Guild of Fine Food awards go to pure rendered beef fat. But not just any pure rendered beef fat—some rather extraordinary stuff.
The NHS Has Been Prescribing Hundreds of Thousands of Gluten-Free Pizzas
Thanks to an antiquated system dating back to the 1960s when gluten-free food was actually hard to find, the NHS has been writing out prescriptions for food suitable for celiac sufferers.
Marmite Was Confiscated in Airports So Often It Now Comes in Travel Size
Addicted to the funky, salty spread? Rejoice—it now comes in small jars specially designed to combat the frequent confiscations of the stuff at the UK's airports.
Reasons London Is the Worst Place Ever
London is a city that exists permanently at the end of its rope. It's the last metropolis in a sinking country on a starving continent, an island within an island oozing out into the Home Counties like an unstoppable concrete oil spill.
Meet the Digital Studio FIELD
We went to visit UK-based digital art studio FIELD to learn how they created 'Energy Flow,' one of the most mind-bending film projects we've ever seen.