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My wife's parents are from the Philipines. Her mum took her and her brothers to Manilla to see where she grew up and she really didn't like it much; horribly congested and I think she was shocked by the poverty that her mum had grown up in. However, her cousin went to some of the islands in the...

I always felt with Bobby that he was someone who you could get behind - someone with passion, drive, a dose of anger and a lot of ambition. It probably helped that in his time we were on the ascendancy - things feel a lot different when you are already at the top and expected to stay there and...

Certainly rushed and you get the feeling that everyone involed is glad to get it over with; it's understandable (especially from the actors' points of view) but it's a shame that the show ended with such a whimper. On the finale:

That certainly makes very good sense and I think you're probably right, but I suppose the issue is that you have provided that explanation, not the writers. It's as if you/we as fans have to fill in the gaps they've left and provide a much better explanation of what happened than they could or...

I think you've perfectly summaries exactly how I feel. As a piece of television, Episode 5 was fantastic and also gave a good impression (as most of us don't know what it's like) of what it might be like to exeprience a city getting totally mullered. But again - as has often been the case...

To be still be in contention for four trophies by mid-April was an achievement in itself. To then finish up with a cup (possibly another) and to win the league against what is a great Liverpool side - having at one stage been 7 points behind them - is marvelous. 98 points is the icing on the...

Agreed, except that I always felt Vary's to be one of the true heroes of the whole thing; extremely good at what he does, and perhaps the only one who truly has the interests of the common people at heart (same could perhaps be said for Tyrion, maybe?). I think that one of the signs of how GoT...

Like it. I always felt that Samwell was essentially a representation GRRM (a bookworm, a nerd, the fat kid, etc.)

That's a good point and I agree with you, except that I think there's a better way of going about it than what we saw in Ep3. If you want characters to survive, that's fine, but then put them into situations that they can realistically survive. GoT always stood in the genre it because situations...

Personally, I prefer that we didn't get that. I think some things are best left as unexplained mysteries. Mind you, I think we already know his backstory, don't we?

Tiring episode to watch, not least because it was so dark and blurry (yes, I know the brightness can be turned up, but even then it was hard to see anything). The good: The bad:

Yeah, it's a tough one. I think perhaps not for the overall motivation of the nation to go to war - that was definately one of nationalism and imperialism. I was thinking more of the invidual soldiers and their willingness to give their life for their Emporer; that seemed to have a somewhat...

I never said there was... The question posed was: "What other religions use suicide bombers?" My response was that, whilst not bombers per se, the Japanese used kamakaze and other forms of suicide attacks in the name of their own religious doctrine. I thought it was an interesting question that...

Maybe not suicide attacks, but certainly other atrocities, as most people of the senior generation across South East Asia will testify. And those atrocities were carried out for, and because of, a deep religious belief and the deification of their leader. Besides, my reply was merely to offer...

Not bombers per se, but the Japanese of course used kamakaze and other forms of suicide attacks during the second world war. I think that qualifies, given that their brand of ideology was very much a religious one; they believed their Emporer was a deity and that they would be divinely rewarded...

I wasn't a fan of Season 7 as it all felt a bit Marvel; 'favourite' characters surviving when they should be dying (at least Bronn or Jaimie should have perished in that battle) or being put together purely for fan service (that sparring scene between Ayra and Brienne), and everything moving at...

Having mixed feelings about VAR. On the one had, I'm glad it's there to get decisions correct, which it did; Lorente's wasn't a hand ball, and Kun was offside. Would rather lose to correct decisions than to the horribly bad ones as we did last season against Liverpool away. But the way it...

He said himself that wasn't the problem as he'd played on the left for Utd many times. He quit, if I recall correctly, because of the shoddy management - which, to be fair, he was right about. Sven was utter crap and Scholes was probably the best English player of his generation whose talents -...

Last week I received the terrible news that I am related to Jack Wilshere; third cousin, apparently. The horror. And I emphasise that this classifies as a tenouous link, nothing more.

I worked in for an environmental conservation charity for nearly four years. - In terms of conservation staff, we recruited more ecologists from the 18-25 age bracket than every other group. The Cambridge colleges that offer environmental-based degrees are jam-packed. - In terms of supporter...