While we don’t mind the Tower of London charging tourists £60 a head, it’s worth remembering that it serves a higher purpose. It’s a shrine to the worst things we do to our own people. (There are numerous shrines to the worst things we’ve done to other people.)

We invented the internet, jet engines and suffering - such staples of modern existence. What’s her definition of exciting - kindness, contentment and harmony? Won’t catch on.

She says that at least my father-in-law is part Austrian Jew, instead of just a couple of big islands. I've pointed out that, thanks to the many waves of invasions from the continent, British ancestry is as much of a hodgepodge as the English language. Your history is wild! 😃

My history is mostly Silurian. I have no evidence of that, but that far back, who even knows.

Wait, are you related to Cheddar Man?