I heard tell of a college where fellows are required to reimburse the cost of any vintage port they consume. It recently went up from 6/- to 7/6 a bottle. (View Post)

This was, of course, the premise behind a regular storyline in Bill Tidy's far-sighted Grimbledon Down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimbledon_Down (View Post)

"They laughed when I said I'd ban nitrous oxide. They're not laughing now." (View Post)

You're damning him with faint praise. On the domestic front Mr Sunak has been so successful dealing with murder, rape, knife crime, fraud and robbery that he now has the time and energy to confr… (View Post)

It was noticeable in Barcelona that at 9am hardly anyone stirred but at 11pm the place was buzzing. People respond to Berlin time by doing everything two hours later. Must be even more extreme out in… (View Post)