Didn't like the film but Seu Jorge in the movie is my life's ambition - sitting on the bow of a ship playing early Bowie songs on my acoustic guitar all day.
Son got his first Viz annual, bought for him by my best mate. Feeling quite emotional as my boy hits all these rites of passage. Merry Christmas everyone
'what [the West] cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, it is the crime against the white man & the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs, the Indians & the blacks of Africa' - Aimé Césaire
As promised, here's my graph of GB station (re)openings since WW2... I have excluded relocations or brief (less than ten year) closures. Stations no longer open are also excluded.
The success of BR sectorisation and devolution is pretty stark. As is the failure of privatisation.