The racial mix in the cast of 'The Great' worked fine for me - partly I suspect because the acting was good, and partly because I am a little bit hazy in what history in that period of the … (View Post)

Yep, would agree with both Leon and OLB there. I'd add that it's not just period dramas. Pretty much every programme on the telly - period drama, sitcom, panel show, documentary, advert - h… (View Post)

In Bill Bryson's "Neither here nor there" he talks of an apparently blissful evening as a youth in an Alpine bar, along with some German friends he had made who were fortunately able t… (View Post)

I saw this today. It made me sad. It turns out to be a story which is 18 years old but I think it still has currency. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-gene… (View Post)

'Afternoon pb. I've had an amazingly busy bank holiday weekend. I have any amount of anecdata to regale you with, but I can't actually be bothered - just rest assured it backs up whate… (View Post)