David Cameron has announced that Britain is a Christian country. That’s sort-of true – we have a state religion, even (the Church of England). But British Christianity, British religion, isn’t particularly zealous. Most of us don’t go to church (or mosque, or temple). We pay lip service to the religion that our parents had, but [...]

I grew up and still live in inner-city Manchester, so I’m used to ethnic diversity. On the other hand, I went to (almost entirely white) Roman Catholic schools and I’ve got an xbox live account¹ so I’m – unfortunately – familiar with hateful racism². I’m distressingly familiar with the argument “I’m not racist, but” – which [...]

In my unending quest (I’ve just started it actually) to improve the quality and enjoyability of British TV viewing, I have decided to compile a list of TV shows that would be very much improved by only showing the last ten minutes of each of them. Here are the shows that I propose should be [...]