Americans do brew some excellent beers, and export more and more of them. If I have one trifling complaint it is that they are over-hoppers. I like an intense hoppy flavour as much as the next man, b… (View Post)

Two of my daughters are mad for bubble tea. Chosen outlet is a weird-smelling Chinese shop in the back streets. I don’t think this one is a front – it largely caters to the HK immigrants, of whom we … (View Post)

Orgreave? (View Post)

I mean, if you prefer, you can have Reg Gumby with a megaphone come out and bellow "SNOOKER! START!", but I think Rob's introductions are preferable. I've been most of the last 26… (View Post)

Good point. That's certainly true of me. Perhaps that goes back to the original post about status. Perhaps my sense of self worth is down to my status as a family man; someone else's might … (View Post)