It was the name I expected (on the basis of that's what I'd heard, rather than I expected it of that inividual). (View Post)

Sordid doesn't mean illegal, though, does it? I agree it's not really a word anyone outside of tabloid journalists use any more. It's just code for 'sex is involved somehow' … (View Post)

I wonder how long it will be until "The Queen" isn't automatically assumed to mean Queen Elizabeth II? Certainly if you were to giveme a sentence whuch could refer to any queen (such a… (View Post)

Interestingly, around the same sort of time as the Stephen Milligan incident, there was a Stockport councillor who died in very similar circumstances. But rather than Milligan's rather racy get-… (View Post)

I don't think it ever wasn't the case that if you turned up wearing a t-shirt which strongly implied "I am about to illegally disrupt this event" the police wouldn't have had… (View Post)