An extraordinary life. His voice in Quo Vadis is one of the richest-sounding English voices you'll ever hear, including a few songs he spontaneously composed himself on the set. (View Post)

There's always the drastic and now dated elocution lessons option, although you might come out sounding like the blessed Margaret. (View Post)

Yup ; and that's why the nasty Farage poster from the Balkans border was so potent. (View Post)

I think the Falklands War was a disaster for our politics in general. From preventing an SDP victory that would have put Britain on the road to more consensual, Continental-style government and precl… (View Post)

You're certainly right that the Tories' full-throated support of the Iraq debacle seems to have been almost entirely expunged from the public's memory - or at least that of the rightwi… (View Post)