When you put it like that England really is a sporting Goliath, and yet the self-image is of perennial underachievers. (View Post)

Not enough people want to swallow pain now in return for reward later, but it's precisely what I plan to do if I ever get a mortgage again. (View Post)

The competition from TV should make films shorter. If a story is too long to tell in 100 minutes then it's a story to be told in at least two episodes. Make a short series rather than a single f… (View Post)

People haven't forgotten the soup here. During the famine the Anglican church in Ireland would offer starving people soup on condition that they renounced the Catholic church and joined the Angl… (View Post)

Meme is not a synonym for conspiracy theory. (View Post)