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Miners leave after working the final shift at Kellingley Colliery

Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it’s giving it up. Why can’t the US?

Environment

The UK will stop burning coal for electricity by 2025. The US, meanwhile, is trying to end the “war on coal.”

The World

360 Staff Pick: Speech Therapy

Arts, Culture & Media

Experimenting with Laughing Gas

Arts, Culture & Media
"It sounded a load of rubbish" is how Grimsby port chief Martin Boyers remembers reacting to a plan to create a maintenance hub for new offshore wind farms in the depressed city. “I didn’t know anything about renewables."

Offshore wind projects breathe life into struggling UK ports

Environment
A rig (L) surrounds the top of one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station as demolition work is carried out, in London, Oct. 2, 2014.

Why the UK has an easier time than the US divorcing from coal

Economics
A sign is seen at the Polish Social and Cultural Association after graffiti was painted on the side of the building calling on Poles to leave the United Kingdom, in Hammersmith, London, Britain June 27, 2016.

Anti-Polish attacks shot up after the UK’s Brexit vote. Is globalization to blame?

Global Politics

“No one knows where we are heading. There is no government and no opposition.”

"Bread and Dripping," a traditional English dish, is the first course of Tom Sellers' menu at his London eatery, Restaurant Story.

This English chef is bringing working-class ‘bread and dripping’ to his finest patrons

Food

You could call Tom Sellers a “culinary wunderkind.” At 26, he already has his own award-winning restaurant in London. Now, he’s trying to bring “bread and dripping” — a traditional dish for many working-class Britons — to the plates of England’s most refined foodies.

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