Reminds me of an incident on the Today programme when a correspondent in Siberia was reporting on a cold snap. "It's minus forty here," he gushed. "Centigrade or Fahrenheit?"… (View Post)

I have no idea what is meant by the "suffocating atmosphere of social conformity the British had to endure in order to defeat" the Nazis. I'll put you down as "conformist" th… (View Post)

I'm going to start a new career as a freelance photojournalist. My first assignment is a quick trip to Snowdonia to snap the local coppers enforcing the lockdown. I need a nubile "darkroom … (View Post)

Our local County Lines delivery boys seem to have a phone in every pocket. Presumably some sort of derogation can be arranged so they only have to run the app on one of them? (View Post)

Taking the ferry from HK Island to Kowloon I was briefly aware of stepping onto a piece of land with Calais at the other end. (View Post)