I don't think it's Rotherhithe, because I'd recognise it if it was, but somewhere in that vicinity?

They actually changed it a while back for a (sadly much less good) statue of the right guy.

LBJ and Nixon are perhaps the two most interesting people ever to become president, and it's crazy they came one after the other

Always Team Berk

Pretty much. Berks are people with bad grammar, wankers are pedants. So, more broadly, people who never hoover are berks, and people who use coasters are wankers. Drunks are berks, judgmental teetotallers are wankers. Charles I was a berk and Cromwell was a wanker.

The berks and wankers distinction is great, because it's applicable not just to grammar but to almost every field of human activity.

There's a bit in (I think) Jake's Thing where the main character upbraids his psychiatrist for pronouncing libido "lib-ee-do" like an Italian, rather than "lib-eye-do" like an Englishman

I enjoyed this incident, related by Kingsley Amis, of Enoch Powell being a dick at a dinner party.

This isn't particularly improbable I think. Inhalers use HFCs as propellants, and fluorinated gases can have warming potential thousands of times higher than CO2.

I think a problem with this product reaching its ideal market is that unconfident home cooks absolutely hate using big heavy knives. Give your average once-a-week cook the choice and they'll tackle a whole cabbage with a paring knife.

How can someone know to split aces and rights, but not know blackjack is a scam?