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 — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

An apparently infinite chain of Cockney rhymes and the Brexit effect in the pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic clues “Brexiteer” appeared in some of 2016’s “Word of the Year” lists and a ...

Cockney culture has long been a proud part of London’s storied landscape, boasting its own pitter-patter dialect of rhyming slang, a cuisine of eels, pie and liquor, and even an alternative royal ...