Frankie was meticulously scripted down to the last "titter yea not..." (View Post)

We're living with the linguistic effects yet - the animals we eat (cow, pig, sheep) names derive from Anglo-Saxon roots, while the meat that they provide (beef, pork, mutton) come from Norman Fr… (View Post)

Tom McTague on Johnson: IS BORIS JOHNSON A LIAR? And if he is, why don’t his supporters seem to care? He is both the most underrated and overrated politician I’ve come across: dismissed as unserious … (View Post)

Hickson easily was the definitive Marple, honourable mention goes to Julia Mckenzie, Geraldine McEwan was ill-served by script writers and Margaret Rutherford just replayed Madame Arcati… (View Post)

As some unkind wag once observed a defection that had “raised the average IQs of both parliamentary parties”.. (View Post)