Also what do we reckon the chances FIFA came up with the idea for this trophy without enough time to commission one, panicked, and have used one of the rejected prototypes for the World Cup trophy that was sitting in a dusty box somewhere?

(As a note though, judging from context, this book is about Erasmus Darwin, not his grandson Charles)

Another three got on at Penrith and now my carriage is just basically this noise every ten seconds or so

Also thinking about it, as well as the tell-don't-show problem, The Running Man would have been much more on the nose if the bad guy had been more like Mr Beast instead of Josh Brolin's generic corporate asshole character

That said some of the exposition was so clunky I'm wondering if Edgar Wright saw this Tweet and decided it was serious

These days, all you have to do is wear a poppy* and they will arrest you

* and also allegedly break the 1894 Uniform Act

I always figured that was a result of how well-connected he was, both to the Conservative party and royalty, which he exploited ruthlessly to be in the public eye as much as possible and enabled him to hide in plain sight

I think the median Brit before his death thought him an eccentric rather than a creep (with younger people much more likely to pick it up on their radar). Peter Kay wouldn't have had him on the "Amarillo" video if he was in any way universally reviled while alive

Wonder what these lads are up to today

Not so sure about that. Thousands turned out for his funeral, people even turned up to it in fancy dress as him, lots of people clearly loved and respected him

BTW if you watched/liked Borgen as well, the Danish parliament does free tours (but need advance booking) which were very interesting too

Yeah I have the same with the owner of Tesla. No one needs that level of noise in their life. What might work best is a probabilistic filter eg you only get 10% of the discussion of this person, ie just enough to keep abreast of it all