Also: proper beaches with proper tides. The Med does not, for me, have proper beaches. (View Post)

It would be interesting to compare the cost of the coronation once a generation to the cost of e.g. tge American presidential election, or even the French. (View Post)

Or, put another way, one fiftieth of the annual budget for housing asylum seekers. But anyway - my view prior to the reign of the current monarch was that he would be the last hereditary head of stat… (View Post)

A lot of the £50-£70k class underestimate to a significant degree exactly how far up the pile they are. (View Post)

God yes. How do you go on being Mark Oaten after that? The part of the episode which most amused me was that it came to light because the other party heard the name 'Mark Oaten' on the news… (View Post)