letter from Europe

Alexander Litvinenko’s murder was the stuff of spy novels. Now it’s straining U.K.-Russian relations.

Surging property prices are turning a growing number of middle-class Londoners into ’super commuters’—and they’re happier for it

Why David Cameron is targeting the obese in his latest campaign to reform welfare

An epidemic of loneliness is Britain’s ‘national shame’ and a growing health crisis among the elderly

Politicians capitalize on tragic case in debate about welfare culture and domestic violence

As they watch the debt crisis unfold, hardline Euroskeptics in Britain have never seemed so smug

High prices mean that many younger Brits will flat-share well into their adult lives

Public sex appears to be on the rise in England, and buttoned-down country folk want it to stop

Brits are using credit like never before. Whatever happened to frugality?

David Cameron’s wife brings style and mystery to the PM’s residence