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Kate Middleton is finished with her chemotherapy treatment. On Monday, the Princess of Wales shared a video of herself with Prince William and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, revealing the health update. “As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief …

This article was developed with the support ofJournalismfund Europe. On a cold morning in late February, farmer Gareth Wyn Jones was standing with a few dozen other protesters outside the annual conference for the Conservative Party in Wales. Inside the venue, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was giving a speech …

During Becky Milligan’s more than three decades as a journalist, she still remembers her encounter with a bottlenose dolphin, Freddie, that touched people in the British seaside town of Amble in the mid-1980s and 1990s. Freddie was all people talked about. Crowds waved and cheered from the pier as Freddie …

In the 1997 sleeper hit comedy The Full Monty, six unemployed men in a dying English steel town attempt to make some cash by putting on a show where they will dance and strip for the local women. In the new FX sequel series, Gaz (Robert Carlyle), Dave (Mark Addy), …

“Not everything is political.” The person saying this, with a sightly exasperated air, is named Jean (Rosy McEwen). She’s a high school PE teacher, recently(ish) divorced, and still mostly closeted about her sexuality. This declaration of independence is being addressed to her off-on, and very much out, girlfriend Viv (Kerrie …

This post contains spoilers for the Ted Lasso season finale, “So Long, Farewell.” During what certainly seems to be the final episode of Ted Lasso, reporter Trent Crimm reads a note Ted has written him regarding Trent’s book about his season with AFC Richmond, which Trent has titled The Lasso …

It’s two minutes into the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and I already have chills. I’m watching something a lot of British people thought we’d never see: a Eurovision hosted in the U.K. After years of abysmal performances and frustration, the U.K. finally changed the narrative last year, finishing in second …

As a British person, I’ve spent a lot of my adult life despairing about the direction of my country. From Brexit, to our disastrous Conservative government ushering in an era of inequality, corruption and division, it’s been a steady drip-feed of bad things happening. Truthfully, I’ve now become accustomed to …