I've rolled this story out before - but about a year ago, at a pub quiz in middle class South Manchester, during a picture round, I was apparently the only person in a room of over 100 who recog… (View Post)

Was that me? I said I quite liked that the teams are sponsored by crisps. Apart from that, it's an abomination. And a double tragedy as the T20 is such a wonderful format. (View Post)

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)