Swearing is an art form, and us Brits are blessed with a vocabulary of curses, cusses and put-downs more well-stocked than most. But did you know that calling someone a berk should be much more offensive than it really is, or that the incredible 'nincompoop' is actually a legal word? Read More >>

Apparently British society is now split into much more than just the working class, the middle class, and the toffs upper class. The BBC's Great British Class Survey reckons there's at least seven social groups, but is that a good thing? And to which one do you belong? Read More >>

Britain is and always has been, a powerhouse of invention, innovation, science and technology. From penicillin, DNA, cloning and stem cells, to carbon fibre, radar, the jet engine, Concorde and the ARM chips that power your smartphone, Britain is behind it all in some sort of capacity. But what's the best British invention from the last 100 years? Read More >>

We've seen what Microsoft, and others like Corning, think the future will look like, but it's always been modelled on the US. What about good ol'Blighty? What will future Britain look like? It'll be full of virtual screens, I, Robot-like cars, and nagging technology that tells you what to do, apparently. Read More >>

London at night is pretty spectacular; all lit up in a neon glow, but with a kind of class only big, tall shiny buildings can give you, not the kind of tacky glitzy-glam of Vegas. Difficult to top then, apart from when shot from space. Read More >>

It's fair to say that we get a lot of truly beautiful timelapse videos out of the US. In fact, I'd say the UK is a little under-represented in this wonderfully modern art form. But that's not because Britain's ugly, as this stunning video shows. Read More >>

Starbucks has been facing a right old Twitter storm after confusing its Irish followers for Brits -- a cardinal sin in the eyes of the Republic -- asking them whether they were "proud to be British". Read More >>

With all this rain we've had in the last month or so you'd be forgiven for thinking we're no longer in a drought. And you'd be right. According to the Environment Agency, we're undergoing "Environmental Stress due to Rainfall Deficit," or ESRD -- it's a new (cough marketing buzzword, cough) term for when it's bucketing down, but the country still doesn't have any water. Read More >>

Brit John Fisher probably figured he'd gotten away with inappropriately touching that 10-year old girl. That is, until police showed him the photos his victim took of him mid-molestation on her Nintendo DS. Read More >>

The Keep Calm and Carry On poster has become quite the British icon. Actually, we're getting a bit sick of all the spoofs and parodies everywhere to be honest, but have you ever wondered where the original came from, and how did it get revived from a bygone era? Watch this three-minute video and wonder no more. Read More >>

The London Olympics were supposed to provide UK firms with work — the British taxpayer has to foot the ginormous bill for these dubiously profitable games somehow, after all.Now it turns out that something seemingly as simple as printing tickets for the events has been outsourced to the US, and it’s going to cost you £6 in postage for the privilege. What. The. Hell? Read More >>

Jemima Packington was born with the gift of foresight. Unfortunately, that future-vision is only legible by reading the positions of thrown asparagus. That's right—she's an asparamancer and she just foretold the births of our two royal heirs and our imminent trouncing of the rest of the world in the 2012 Olympics. Read More >>

Graphene, that single layer of carbon atoms that is the talk of wonder stuff, has just taken one massive step towards being useful and infused into your electronics. Scientists from Manchester have figured out that going 3D is the answer to graphene-infused transistors and super-speed computers. Read More >>

I can’t believe it’s quite this easy, but apparently Scotland Yard and the FBI converse over those crappy call-in conferencing systems, which let Anonymous log-on to check-out what they were yakking about. Read More >>

My experience of Siri has been OKish as an Englishman with my generic southerner accent. But even I’ve got to admit the “I’m sorry, I can only… blah blah blah… in US English” really gets to me too, because frankly it’s not sorry is it? It’s just a machine, and it wouldn’t do it again if it was really sorry. Anyway, perhaps this is the advert the good old ASA should have forced Apple to run; it’s certainly a lot closer to the irritating truth for us Brits. Read More >>