No abstemiousness in our household either. My 17yo son got in at 2 last night, and my 19yo daughter at 3. The latter appears to be very hungover today. (View Post)

Only works if the tea is in a pot, surely? The tea needs boiling water to properly liberate the flavour. That's why you can't get a decent cup of char in America or most of continental Euro… (View Post)

America is such a strange country. You can own a submachine gun or turn up to scream abuse at someone's funeral but you can't hang your washing up in your garden or buy a haggis. (View Post)

The irony of the Argentinian claim to the Falklands is that it relies on the colonial Spanish claim to the islands. (View Post)

You don't need to follow through on the threat for it to be harmful. It's incredibly corrosive for public life for people to face constant torrents of abuse. How are they to know that a par… (View Post)