The obvious solution is to turn the Met Office website into a betting exchange. It's all very well offering 9-1 against rain this afternoon but if they backed their judgment with folding money w… (View Post)

I recall a Punch cartoon from the 1960s showing a patient waking from an operation, surrounded by non-white doctors and nurses. "Where am I?" (View Post)

Patten was still on his way up in 1992. He reached the pinnacle of achievement as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. There have only been four in the last 91 years. PMs are a dime a dozen. (View Post)

Foreign female soloists (Janice Ian, Judy Collins, Nico...) and, faute de mieux, home-grown female soloists (Sandy Denny, Marianne Faithful, Mary Hopkins...) have always been popular with gentlemen f… (View Post)

Water is very convenient for a shower but does anyone actually drink the stuff? (View Post)