The comedian Dave Gorman did a really good piece on the move from a generation ago - when the choice was good cheap tea or bad expensive coffee - to now, when tastes for coffee have got more discerni… (View Post)

The inability of Europeans and Americans to make a decent cup of tea is baffling. It's not hard. (View Post)

And Wilson was apparently a keen Huddersfield Town fan. Although IIRC, according to Dominic Sandbrook, in early 1966 the fact that England were due to host the world cup that year came as something o… (View Post)

It's what you have to ask for when someone rather grandly offers you a choice of teas. Why someone would willingly choose Earl Grey 'tea' will remain forever beyond me. (View Post)

BBC weather forecasting is now astonishingly bad. My understanding is that they've fallen out with the Met Office - who provide pretty accurate forecasts - and draw their forecasts now from some… (View Post)