You can see it in politics. You can hear it in public debate. You can feel it in the way people talk about each other, not with curiosity, but with distance. The language of division is becoming more ...

Shop owners in the U.K. are fighting to win government protection for pie and mash, a working-class meal with deep roots. Peter Flude for The New York Times Andy Green is leading the charge to ...

Pie and mash shops have been “pushed to the brink of extinction” in recent years, as gentrification sent Londoners out of the East End – taking the traditional Cockney cuisine with them, said Demi ...

From colonial India to East London, learn how ‘pony’ and ‘monkey’ became part of Cockney rhyming slang and their place in ...

The Pearly Kings and Queens, known for their button-festooned costumes, preserve a charitable tradition that began in the Victorian era and became a symbol of the city’s working-class culture. By ...

An Essex MP is to lead a parliamentary debate calling for traditional pie 'n' mash with liquor to get protected status, like champagne and Cornish Pasties. Richard Holden, the Conservative MP for ...