Yes it came to the fore in all sorts of ways, including comedy and game shows. One time, I went on Weakest Link (strongest link two rounds, didn't win), but I thought a long time before applying, because its basis was so fcking mean. I knew it was all an act, and played along with it, but even so ..

Unfunny and repetitive comedian

Thank you for your principled action

Brave of you

His clearly reluctant, fake "support" for Remain, makes one wonder what else he pays mere lip service to

It seems incongruous for football (soccer) bosses to award a Peace Prize, given the mayhem that the sport's fans sometimes create.
A Hooligan Prize would be more consistent

Reminiscent of what happened with D Icke - milking the entertainment value

I expect they pronounced "peace" the Italian way, since he's been taking it

Russian commanders don't care how many of their troops get killed. They just keep coming.

Major new-tech products invariably experience a shakeout, sooner or later, leaving two or three top players, and relegating other survivors to niche or compatible status

That's settled then innit

To what extent will, I'm sure, come to light soon. Attempts by the outgoing regime to get their policies waved through without denate or consideration of their consequences has failed. We live in hope. No one will get everything they want.

Me too. I got the book and went on the course in 1999. I was smoking a minimum of two packs a day. No cigs or nicotine products since that say. It was pretty tough but it worked

But please start serving baked beans hot instead of tepid

Some of us thought interference by politicians in the course of justice for victims of bigotry had been put behind us too.

The party name is inauspicious, and attempts to forcefeed the perception that it is "Your Party". Organisations and countries named this way invariably espouse the opposite.
"Democratic People's Republic" = Personal Dictatorship.
"Truth" (Pravda) = Propaganda.
"Your" = Their.

Yes. Something that has often occurred to me. Especially since such people support many of the tenets of Sharia, without calling it that

Probably because the old imperial measures were based on familiar things: the length of a foot, a thumbnail, a hand, the length of a ploughed furrow. Metric measures are essentially abstract, derived from a single base, originating in France, who invented many abstract concepts.

The Spanish Inquisition approach to science. Answers that cannot be questioned