It was written by Richard Curtis, a British writer and producer. He did Blackadder, sharp witty comedy, he does Comic Relief, he really should have known better. But right from the first time I saw it I thought he was cynically going for the American market with the film. Sorry, but the US has a reputation for…

Genius! Thank you so much!

I love this, and the fact that George was happy to have the piss ripped out of him: the ‘picking up the photos’ was a reference to the time he crashed his Range Rover into a photo printing shop,while under the influence.

Hannah, you need a copy editor.

Not a good catch. Metro caught it in September this year. Jason mentions it in the article but still tries to take credit.

‘I’m not the only one to notice this strange connection: the British website Metro also noted the 50 Girls 50 connection’

Does it matter? It was clearly dead and therefore posed a risk. Why it hadn’t been dealt with / removed is the crux of the matter, especially as it was in a public space.

‘An arborist is in the process of investigating the cause of the tree’s fall.’

Dear American person. Just because something is so in your country doesn’t make it so in the rest of the world. You really need to learn this. ‘Coloured’ does have a different meaning in the UK. Just like it has a different and very specific one again in South Africa. Don’t forget the history of race relations in the…

So it’s okay she lies because she’s one of your own?

It’s an imported European tradition. Not American-originated.

What jars with me is the way Americans always say ‘Asian-American actor’ rather than ‘Asian actor’. Do they have to come from America to get the part? It would be like saying ‘African American actors’ are needed for Black parts. Like Asian or Black actors/people don’t exist outside the US ..... So parochial. There’s…

All right fatty.

In British parlance, a manila envelope is a manila envelope. A jiffy bag is a bubble mailer. Great research!

It’s her money and he doesn’t get any say on how she spends it. He’s withholding to carry on being an abusing dick.

Nope. The Queen Mother is the mother of the ruler, not the mother of the ruler’s spouse.

Oooh get you and your relentless hypermasculinity.

I think you might mean The Grauniad, Private Eye’s name for the paper due to the incredible number of typos that regularly appeared (and still do) in the paper. The nickname started in the early 70s and is still as applicable today,