#etiquette

Tipping in Britain is lower, narrower and far less anxious than in the United States. The single most important structural…

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

"Alright?" is the most common informal greeting in England, and it trips up visitors more than almost anything else in…

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…