Excuse me why my blood boils for a minute. The Daily Mail is (as I’ve discussed before) the newspaper that panders to the “little englander” mentality in the UK. It’s read by people who are intensely xenophobic. These people are extremely distressed by the possibility that the UK could at some point replace sterling with… Continue reading Little Englanders
Day: 12 June 2003
Mortality
We’ve been thinking about wills. Which leads to some very strange conversations. “So what happens if there’s a huge explosion at a wedding and we both die at the same time as all of our beneficiaries?” “How likely is that?” “It happened in Dynasty” (OK, well it didn’t go quite like that, but you get… Continue reading Mortality