#customs

Britain is a thoroughly secular country in which an extraordinary number of people touch wood, count magpies and refuse to…

On the Spring Bank Holiday every May, several hundred people gather at the top of Cooper's Hill near Brockworth in…

British social rules are mostly unspoken, and breaking them produces atmosphere rather than correction. Here is what actually matters, roughly…

British social rules are mostly unwritten, largely unspoken, and enforced by an elaborate system of atmosphere. The organising principle behind…

The British queue. They queue for buses, for tills, for cash machines, for toilets, for anything at all where more…