None. On the grounds that, like a lot of properly old-school wealthy folk, he doesn't actually make much money.

I was of the impression that financial crime wasn't dealt with by local police forces, but rather national courts. Although having said that, I'm really not certain either way. I think Britain's failure to adequately punish financial crime comes from a much higher level than local policing (our government is…

How about non-fiction books that aren't full of practical advice? The collected writings of Stephen Jay Gould; Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter; generally books explaining the world and universe we live in. I've improved my life more with the stuff I've learned in them than anything I've read in a 'self-help'…

'My' in the sense of the flat I live in, at a heavily discounted rate. It belongs to a friend of mine who's so wealthy, he once forgot about an entire house he owned.

As I've just replied elsewhere, the 'square mile' reference means he's a member of the City of London police – probably one of the last proper old-school police forces in the country.

"Get out of the square mile" – that means he's a member of the City of London Police force, rather than the Metropolitan Police that preside over the rest of London. The City of London Police are proper, old-school policeman, silly hats and all. If he'd done this anywhere else in London, the Met would have have him in…

And then there's the whole separate culture of cricket commentary, which mostly consists of comments about cakes, passing birds, and the crowd's hats.

What's hard to understand about a sport where most high-level competition consists of five separate games, each lasting five days, normally ending in a draw?

Great piece, fantastically written. You should try to get the movie rights – I can see this being a Hollywood blockbuster a few years from now.

Just the greatest car of all time.

Is it wrong that my first thought if I got my hands on one of them would be to tear the engine out and stick it in one of these?

Thanks for taking the time to give a reasoned reply, Ma. It's much appreciated.

See, if you'd just replied with that first paragraph in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem. Clearly from your 'tired argument' comments people have raised this topic in the past, but that doesn't mean I've read it before. Instead of answering my question, you gave two dismissive responses without…

"Stewardess refuses to hang up man's coat" is not news. "Stewardess refuses to hang up former soldier's coat" is only news if you believe former soldiers are more important than other people. Believing that former soldiers are more important than other people is militaristic. Sharing this story means you think it's…

That doesn't answer my question, Patrick – why was this on the Jalopnik front page? Plenty of Flight Club posts don't get shared on Jalopnik, so this was a conscious editorial decision.

The issue is, it implies a connection between liking cars and having pro-military (and specifically pro-US-military) sentiments. Why introduce an unrelated, divisive and arguably nationalist topic into an inclusive international special interest forum?

For the record, I don't have a huge issue with the article itself – just the fact that it was shared on Jalopnik.

Why is this on the Jalopnik front page? Being interested in cars doesn't mean I give a shit about a former military man from the US being treated like a normal human being by a flight attendant.

Hopkinson's law: if you mention Eau Rouge on Jalopnik, half of the replies will be references to Raidillon. I'm pretty sure I've been the guy pointing it out before…

Technically three. Raidillon is two: the uphill right and the left at the top. But I was going for snappiness.