I for one would love to hear much more about how Britain spread democracy in its colonies. That would be a truly ground-breaking piece of scholarship!

This is very very sad. Her 'Tax me if you can' article was seminal in the study of ethnic favouritism in Africa. She was always very friendly in person, and I was just thinking I had not seen her for a number of years. A big loss.

It's like the old joke of members of the Chinese court exhorting the emperor to live for a thousand, then ten thousand, then a 100 thousand years, then forever. Then the next sycophant says, 'may you live forever, and a day.'

John Cazale - just watching the same 5 films again and again

There are many other aspects of life in the UK that you could have added here that paint the same picture. One major factor is cycling fatalities, which are declining even as cycle traffic has increased (www.gov.uk/government/s...). This trend is not the same in France or Germany, for instance.

If you've ever watched Downton Abbey this is absolutely not pedantry!

This idea could only come from someone used to eating Huel-like meals who doesn't care about texture in their food, which is a worrying trend in the youth

I guess there's two ways to answer this: one is the animals I saw on safari (lion, leopard, giraffe, cheetah, elephant, etc.), but another is to interpret 'wild' as in not in game parks or zoos, which would be humpback whale (in Boston!), pilot whale, bottlenose dolphin, sea lions and bison.

The Nigerians I know have much more humour and fairness than she does.

I first heard about Musk on Marginal Revolution, roughly around 10 years ago.

I remember a big late night discussion when I was freshman in 1994 with classmates who refused to acknowledge how great the Beach Boys were. No one questioned the Beatles or Zeppelin