Britain is just a small island … no one pays any attention to them. Dmitry Peskov (allegedly) Reference Wow, what…
English cuisine is generally so threadbare that for years there has been a gentlemen’s agreement in the civilized world to…
He thought risotto was an Italian football player but he prepared this in five minutes. —TV advert
As soon as the French start queuing up for baked beans, I shall commit harakiri, simply by leaning slowly on…
Like most British people, I see my body as a disused Methodist chapel, now used for storage of unsold jumble.…
Jeremy Paxman in his new book on the English argues that “for the majority of people, eating out is to…
The English can be explained by their Anglo-Saxon heritage and the influence of Methodists. But I prefer to explain them…
Brutish obs. form of British. Oxford English Dictionary brutish, a. (ˈbruːtɪʃ) Also 5–6 brutisshe, -ysshe, 7–8 bruitish. [f. brute +…
If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead,…
Now wand’ring o’er this vile cunt-starving land I am content with what comes next to hand. Earl of Rochester, Sodom