East Yorkshire on the AV Club! I'm welling up! I haven't been this proud since Hull was voted Britain's worst town.

I wouldn't worry - this was the most serious attack in over a decade, and we're practiced at dealing with terrorism. We've been doing this for close to 60 years now.

As Peter Kay said - Nobody died and we got a new Debenhams - wayhey!

My grandma was evacuated out of Hull in the early days of the war, and used to sit in her bomb shelter all night listening to the bombers flying overhead, counting the friendly planes as they went out and seeing how many survived to come back.

Admittedly we have a different perspective over here, where Europe is $40 and half an hour away. But people still talk about young people taking holidays and buying phones as a reason that they can't afford houses, because they didn't have phones and houses when THEY were young.
It's almost as if the cost of travel and…

I'd be wary of using the Grauniad as a spelling reference!

I was lucky enough to be part of the late 90s cohort who learned about symbiosis from Terry Farrell, among other grown-up things

We get the same thing here in the UK - it just demonstrates how ludicrously out of touch some older people are.

From a British perspective, class is considerably more important than race in our society - I'd be surprised if his Jewishness is relevant at all. I think by his 'social set', the good Colonel meant the sneering, braying, upper-middle urbanites to whom anything north of Watford is a desolate wasteland - and for whom…

One of the more unpleasant things about this movie is the pretty grim class-baiting that Americans might not pick up on because of its aforementioned 'Englishness'.

I received an invitation to the Palace yesterday, for tea with the Queen. I am confident that I will in no way be consumed to fuel the Astronomican.

Pfft, not any more. We've got them in Cricket AND Rugby now. The 90s WILL be avenged!

The Irish really started turning up in London en-masse in the aftermath of the Great Fire in 1666, when London became Europe's largest building site overnight. From what I've read from the time, they were reviled in the same way as any other large immigrant workforce - and particularly for having too many children,…

I'm from York, which is the UK's Roman city 'par excellence', so we were pretty saturated with it at school. Field trips are cheaper when you can say:

That would definitely make it easier

There hadn't been actual slaves living and working in Britain since the 1200s, a law ironically introduced by the Norman rulers of England to use against Irish, Scottish and Welsh rulers who still took slaves in raids on the English coast.

There was a cohort of Nubian archers stationed in the Roman province of Britannia, so actually there have been black people in Britain since before the ancestors of the current majority of mixed Norman/Saxon/Norse descended people came to live here.

Are they planning on drifting into the north sea? Because Scotland will always be part of Britain unless some pretty extensive terraforming goes on.

Scots ARE British, by virtue of being from the island of Great Britain. Irish people aren't British by default (because referring to Ireland as one of the British Isles is archaic at best) but can identify as such if they want.

He looks, and smells - I'd imagine, more like a Nurglite to me