LONDON — Zipping around central London, among the bikes and scooters of Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo, is a new entrant promising almost instantaneous satisfaction for your craving for […]
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Back to news homeNext Year, Brits Will Fly Abroad. For Now, It’s Bognor Bingo.
BOGNOR REGIS, England — Little has changed in the 40 years that Jean Sheppard has been calling numbers at Crown Bingo here in the heart of Bognor Regis, one of […]
Shell Gets Greener, Even as Climate Advocates Say, ‘Go Faster’
MINETY, England — On a clearing at the edge of a farm field, 40 big rectangular boxes the size of shipping containers sit behind a tall fence. Packed inside are […]
British Restaurants Are Battling a Staff Crisis, Worsened by Brexit
The problem is not just Britain’s stricter immigration rules. Other workers, in Britain and elsewhere, have left the hospitality industry looking for more stable employment, according to Kate Shoesmith, the […]
Can the Pandemic Rescue Britain’s Shopping Areas? This Town Hopes So.
POOLE, England — Hope Dean is loyal to Poole, her hometown in southwest Britain, but she acknowledges that its shopping district has often been a source of embarrassment.Just a few […]
Yellen Aims to Win Support for Global Tax Deal
Ireland has been one of the most vocal critics of the Biden proposal. Its 12.5 percent corporate tax rate has helped fuel the so-called Celtic Tiger economy since the 1990s, […]
E.U. and Britain Move to Impede Belarus’s Access to Air Travel
Airlines are often forced to adjust operations in response to major disruptions, geopolitical and otherwise. This month, for example, several U.S. airlines canceled flights to and from Israel as a […]
Nick Clegg Steers Facebook’s Trump Decision
Facebook wanted Mr. Clegg to help repair its relationships with regulators, political leaders and the media after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when data improperly pulled from Facebook was used to […]
Black Pound Day Aims to Support U.K. Black-Owned Businesses
LONDON — For Aimée Felone, whose children’s bookstore in London stocks tales with ethnically diverse characters, the Black Lives Matter protests last summer were, in a word, overwhelming.“We had attention […]
Chlorinated U.S. Chickens Fuel British Consumers’ Fears
LONDON — In this post-Brexit, mid-pandemic moment in the United Kingdom, with its economy battered by recession and the royal family in mourning and turmoil, it is hard to find […]