London's not for Londoners any more. No-one can afford it.

Their Abba parody was also spot-on:

The Brotherhood's "Crashing the System" is a great 90s UK hip hop track - the lyrics check Mortal Kombat.

West End of London = wealthy.
East End (especially 30 years ago) = squalid docklands.
But we're all stressed in the city, no matter where we're from.

The one thing that these guys really did to assist UK hip hop was to indicate that British artists did not have to try to be American in delivery.

Ladies wouldn't pay you very much for this
Looks like you'll never be a concert flautist.

As a youngster first getting into music in the mid-80s, these guys hit my sensibilities. I wasn't quite ready for hip hop (white kid from the English countryside) - that came later.

Yeah - straight away, I thought of Akala, DJ Format, and others.
Even in terms of popularity, there's the pop styling of people like Dizzee Rascal, Plan B, Tinie Tempah, etc, etc.

He's a witch! Burn him!

Of course - every generation does that…

Yes - seen that (ugh), but I wasn't sure if Cadfael had made it over to the Americas.

Not talking down to children was also a main tenet of Roald Dahl's approach to writing for a younger audience.

Cadfael was made into a fairly successful TV series, with Derek Jacobi playing the titular character.

Although the word "nutters" would signify brilliance.

BLOOD!!!

[unicyclistperiscopes draws a frown on a potato, waves it in front of a camera, and successfully makes a Jason Statham tribute TV series]

He would have played Clouseau not quite as well as Sellers, in the same way that his Poirot is not a patch on Suchet's.

I used to have one a year, and remember just how teeth-achingly sweet that stuff inside is.

Stop saying "gummi" so much.

Cadbury Bournville was my gateway drug to real chocolate.