Brexit and the Land of the Porridge People

We’ve turned our anxieties about leaving the European Union into a food fight. Ms. Prendergast is a British journalist.

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'Britain's Schindler' Is Remembered By Those He Saved From The Nazis

He was a young British stockbroker, when in December 1938, he cancelled a trip to go skiing in Switzerland, and instead went to visit a friend in Prague, who was helping refugees fleeing from the Nazis. That visit changed his life — and many others.

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‘Brexit’ Vote Worries European Up-and-Comers Lured to Britain

LONDON — Silvia Luis, from Portugal, is thinking of attending university in Scotland. Sandra Martinsone, a Latvian, said she might apply for citizenship or buy property. Julie Miquerol, from France, has sped up her plans to open a start-up company in Spain. They, like some 1.

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London Marathon runners could face snow for first time in 35 years

London Marathon competitors could be running in snow this weekend for the first time in the event’s 35-year history. An unseasonal cold weather front is due to sweep in to the capital from Friday, threatening to usher in icy Arctic showers in place of the recent spells of sunshine.

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Britain’s Exclusive Schools Try to Be a Little Less So

RUGBY, England — Patrick Derham remembers the moment in October 1973 when, age 14, from a troubled home and planning to join the navy, he saw the course of his life changed, rather miraculously, for the better. Out of the blue, he was offered a free place at an expensive private school.

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Jimmy Savile Inquiry Accuses BBC of Failing to Report Sexual Abuse

LONDON — A culture of fear and deference to stars at the BBC allowed Jimmy Savile, the disgraced British television personality, to sexually abuse 72 victims, including children, according to a long-awaited report published on Thursday.

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Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children From the Holocaust

Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England.

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