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British Queue Humour: The Comedy of a Nation That Will Not Break the Line – Why queuing has become one of Britain’s richest sources of comic material, how the unwritten rules get enforced through mild social pressure rather than confrontation, and what a broken queue reveals about British character, drawing on The London Prat’s wider treatment of British social comedy
Prince William fuming at Harry working royal LONDON — Prince William is reportedly fuming again, which is now less a newsflash than the Firm’s default thermostat setting. The latest spark is not a memoir, a documentary, or a dog bowl. It is vocabulary. Prince Harry, sources murmur, has been moving through British airspace with the … Read more
The Bayeux Tapestry Is In Britain For The First Time In Nine Hundred Years, And It Is Already Sold Out – A nearly millennium old grievance is currently on display in Bloomsbury, and Londoners cannot get tickets to see it
Open House Weekend Hands Londoners The Keys To Eight Hundred Buildings We Are Normally Not Allowed Near – For nine days, the city quietly stops being a place we merely pass through and becomes a place we can actually enter
Buckingham Palace Nearly Doubled The Paintings On Display. What That Rehang Actually Tells Us Is More Interesting Than The Art. – The Picture Gallery’s once in a generation refresh says something quietly revealing about how the monarchy wants to be seen
The Trench Coat Turns One Hundred And Seventy, And The V And A Is Treating It With The Seriousness It Has Always Deserved – Burberry’s most famous garment gets a proper museum retrospective, and it is more political than it looks
September Is Quietly The Best Month To Actually Live In This City, And Almost Nobody Talks About It That Way – While the tourists chase the summer crowds and the autumn gloom narrative takes over, London has a genuinely good secret