In The New York Times, Dan Bilefsky describes why so many Chinese tourists are paying attention to the otherwise unremarkable British village of Kidlington.

One explanation holds that guides started using Kidlington as a drop-off point for tourists who declined to pay $68 for a Chinese language tour of the palace. Credit Elizabeth Dalziel for The ( Read more... )

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Writing for NPR's Parallels, Lauren Frayer reports on the apparently mysterious mass visit of Asian tourists to the English village of Kidlington. Perhaps they just wanted to see an English village?

Fran Beesley was still in her bathrobe early one morning in June when she emerged from her home to find a Japanese family taking photos of her ( Read more... )

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The Toronto Star carries Rich Noack's Washington Post article looking at how pro-Brexit voters in a depressed port town in England are starting to reconsider.

After mass layoffs in the 1970s and ’80s, this once-vibrant port town in southeastern England lost much of its glory. Many stores are closed, and windows are broken. A shuttered guest house ( Read more... )

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This song, the first track on the Eurythmics' debut album In the Garden, has been rattling around in my head for what I sure are Brexit-related reasons.

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