I hate ties, and indeed the whole English upper class obsession with dressing up, the whole thing just feels like a test whose rules aren't explained to people like me, a test I have been set up… (View Post)

Personally I have no interest in any kind of pornography and have never watched any. But it's absurd to try to police other people's behaviour by the standards of one's own preferences… (View Post)

I'll put Persuasion at the top of my 'to read' pile. I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time during the Easter holidays and loved it. (View Post)

The fact that the Sun poses as some kind of moral arbiter in matters such as these, a "newspaper" that used to carry pictures of topless teenage girls on its third page, is already pretty f… (View Post)

I agree. Maybe we are saying the same thing! (View Post)