I saw a pair of Claire Rayners in a shop but I didn't have enough rogan josh, so I went down the nuclear sub and had a couple of Britney Spears. My girlfriend had a Calvin Klein and all of that set me ...

As alarmist headlines go, they were pretty puzzling. “Teenagers Aren’t Bobby Moore About Their Ruby Murrays and Their Rosie Lee,” fretted one British tabloid this week. “Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Brown ...

If you have no idea what it means to "take a ball of chalk down the frog and toad", it's time to learn a little Cockney rhyming slang. Our Sunday School teacher is John Scott, who lives in East London ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

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