My gran used to live next door to John Thaw's parents. That's as good as my insight gets on this subject. Sorry. (View Post)

The fault here is with most drama's utter aversion to anything amusing happening. But House of Cards was a proper drama. And it's a plausible plotline for one of that series. After all, the… (View Post)

I quite enjoy 'to be fair' where it adds absolutely nothing and the counterfactual - i.e. being unfair - is quite difficult to imagine. E.g. "To be fair, I quite like macaroni cheese&q… (View Post)

Oh come on! This is exactly the sort of thing which happened in The Thick of It. I'm not disputing how ridiculous the situation was. I'm pedantically disputing the use of the phrase 'y… (View Post)

Wasn't 1/5 first thing this morning? This is the slowest five-part post in history! (View Post)