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Men and holding hands

One sunny afternoon, when I was around 13 or 14, I was walking down Tottenham High Road hand-in-hand with one…

5 years ago

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant. But poor people will never stop hoping otherwise. — Kurt Vonnegut

5 years ago

National stereotyping in Britain

In a list of ‘moves designed to piss lots of people off’, banning coffee in Turkey probably ranks somewhere alongside…

5 years ago

Junk food and sight loss

The family of a teenager, from Bristol, who suffered irreversible eyesight loss after surviving on a diet of chips, white…

5 years ago

The best thing about the English: you’re so domesticated

The best thing about the English - you’re so domesticated. All standing around, apologising, keeping your little heads down. You…

5 years ago

No hugging. It was always the other things.

Holidays were always very grim because we had a four week holiday: two weeks mummy and two weeks daddy, and…

6 years ago

Bad diet to blame for one in six deaths in the UK

Poor diets kill almost 90,000 Britons a year. Nearly one in six deaths is now linked to unhealthy eating, researchers…

6 years ago

Put a fucking jacket on

Typical British Victorian attitude: being prudish about the human skin and at the same time rude. Not to mention how…

6 years ago

Have you ever tasted English food? They eat pigs’ blood.

Have you ever tasted English food? They eat pigs' blood. They do not eat pigs' blood. I'm telling you. They…

6 years ago

The English in Greece—a sorry lot

The English in Greece—a sorry lot, by the way—seem to have a poor opinion of the Greek character. The English…

6 years ago