Arts & Humanities Exploring Expletives: New Research Finds 27% Decline in Swearing Since the 1990s The UK study also indicates that the gap between swear word use by men and women has lessened and that Britons have a new favourite swearword.
Academia & Publishing Blamed and Disconnected: How COVID-19 and Brexit Disrupt UK Students’ Lives British students are facing the ‘double threat’ of Brexit and COVID-19. The UK government’s chaotic response to the crisis adds to their anger and frustration.
Arts & Humanities You are not Pete Tong. I am Barry White. Whilst demonstrating some of the joys of rhyming slang, the authors of A Dictionary of English Rhyming Slangs discuss something you may not have noticed in the title of their book.
Arts & Humanities Lord Beaverbrook, the Business Tycoon Who Loved Tomato Soup William Maxwell Aitken, also known as Lord Beaverbrook, was one of the most influential figures in British politics and society in the first half of the 20th Century – and he had a little-known culinary passion.