There's also the Macbeth threshold to consider- when a government's actions in office have been so bad that its members daren't risk not being in office, so they double down on the wro… (View Post)

S is for Spectator S is for Soviet (View Post)

Totally not the setup of a heist caper. (Mostly because the protagonsists of heist capers are strangely loveable. See last night's love for Thomas Crown.) Oh Sinner Man, where you gonna run to? (View Post)

Good for him. Is this meaningfully different to the EU's unsubtle hints, or is "Australian-style" the equivalent of Jim Hacker's renaming the emulsified high fat offal tube the Br… (View Post)

The story behind that- the Pythons making two shows for German TV- is the sort of thing that could have had Graham Chapman marching in and saying "stop that, it's silly" at any moment.… (View Post)