Sure, you're right. I was speaking in gross generalisations, but York tends generally to be the 'posh' bit of Yorkshire (near Harrogate-on-Thames, no less!) whereas Sheffield is firmly in the rust belt.

Ah, Young Sheldon. The answer to the question that nobody asked.

I think there's often too much emphasis placed on the Stop Order, possibly because of the way history is taught, to demonstrate just how dominant the Germans were at the time. Of course Blitzkrieg was a new and frighteningly effective tactic, but it wasn't without its flaws - and the Dunkirk evacuation exposed one of…

I had hoped the doors to the throne room would open to reveal Gendry sitting on the throne on his own surrounded by a crowd of courtiers made from coconuts and wearing a crown he made himself.

Sure they did - they built another wall called the Antonine Wall across the centre of Scotland too, and forts all the way up the Scottish coast - they just retreated later behind Hadrian's Wall because there weren't enough resources to justify the legions' presence

Based on my memory of last season's detailing of the Bolton forces arrayed against the Starks, don't the Karstarks and Umbers also represent the majority of the forces loyal to the Starks?

If you REALLY want to read into their accents, Mark Addy is from York and Sean Bean is from Sheffield - so Addy's accent is to the posher end of 'Yorkshire' while Bean's is more working class.

You will understand what Sean means if you've heard him play Martin Septim with a generic RP accent in the game The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. You wouldn't know its him for the most part, but occasionally his accent slips and he sounds reet northern, which is an immersion breaker and a half.

Eh. Christmas is just pre-drinks for Boxing Day, really

To be fair, though - we are talking about an alien, so I assume the genetics and cultural upbringing factors won't really apply to The Doctor. Generally humans are starting from scratch and being brought up by their parents, rather than starting at 3,000 years old and being brought up by 12 previous incarnations of…

And now we'll take you live to the grand final of female heads of Government:

The international face of the UK is generally presented via urban areas like London and Manchester, where there is considerably more diversity. But the rural 'flyover' areas that make up the vast majority of the UK's landmass are generally 95%+ white.

Hearing about all of your American bizarro-world versions of British seaside towns is really confusing

Yeah, but he's not American. So he's almost certainly not using the phrase in a way that Americans seem to think he is.

I can confirm as a Brit that being 'in the shit' has no military connotations whatsoever in British English. I wasn't even aware of the link until you mentioned it. So he almost certainly isn't using it in that fashion.

I only know because he's from my home town, so he's a bit of a local hero!

I broadly agree with you, but I can't help but feel it's a wave about to break - and horror is about to disappear up its own fundament again. There are a lot of great ideas out there, It Follows and Lights Out being a couple of gems, but all these shared Universe sequels and prequels and threequels are a bit much.

And he did it by taking the street's communal water pump handle off so nobody could use it, and seeing if that made any difference to the number of people who died.

I thought the moral panic was ridiculous. Have you seen how cheap those frozen Findus meals are? We'll never see horse meat so cheap in this country again!

The man who discovered that Cholera is water-bourne in London was called John Snow