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True although I imagine both of those places are incredibly difficult to settle permanently in. I doubt I would find it very easy to get a residency permit for Monaco, alas.

Gabbard as DNI. Christ.

Correct. Might be one of the reasons we have a lot of round tower churches. So many of them dotted around the countryside, often built for villages long gone.

Suffolk is very pretty and also has lots of great historical sites. Norfolk is perhaps a little wilder and imo has the greater concentration medieval art and architecture. Perhaps being further away from the capital meant more survived the reformation.

Go and watch cricket at Ketteringham Hall near Wymondham. It's like being in the Go Between. Then go and see the medieval glass at the church next door.

My work here is done

All states discriminate between their own citizens - whether they are born in the country or naturalized - and immigrants. I can't think of a single place that doesn't. The UK is pretty generous in what it offers immigrants, for example allowing commonwealth citizens to vote in parliamentary elections which imo is pretty absurd. What I think Wimesy is talking about is the government prioritising the well being of UK-born people over immigrants (e.g. spending less money on housing illegal immigrants), which is a bit vaguer and perhaps more morally ambiguous but again I can't think of a place in the world where that wouldn't be the case. Which is unsurprising because all states have limited capacity and any government that was seen as caring less about their own people than those of other nations would quickly be voted out, or would be faced with serious unrest.

We don't have any motorways running through our county and yes it has quite a remote feel to it, also because of the Fens. In W Norfolk I'm as close to Peterborough as I am to Norwich but the former obviously feels very much further away in accent, culture and landscape because the Fens is such a barrier. After the industrial revolution and colonisation of the New World everything in England shifted north and west leaving Norfolk to fade into obscurity which has meant it still has quite an old world feel to it. I didn't realise quite how sheltered and in many ways old-fashioned it was until in my teens I started going to football in Leicester and then university in Sheffield. Was something of a culture shock. We don't have same kind of noisy regional pride of say a Yorkshireman or a Scouser, and when any surveys about identity are done we tend to be the ones who identify most with England and least with the region. We are very awkward and lack self confidence. There's a great video on youtube of Sean Harris being interviewed in the green room after winning a Bafta and it's the most East Anglian thing I've ever seen. We are very used to jokes about the county and have embraced the associations with Alan Partridge which to be honest is probably the thing most people know about Norfolk now. I hear a lot of comments in London about how backward, racist and stupid people are there which bothers me slightly, but to be honest I would much rather live there long term than in London. Hopefully Norfolk remains 'backward'. But yeah, avoid Yarmouth.

tbh I don't really know what exactly "prioritise the UK homeless first, not the migrants" means but obviously a state should prioritise the well being of its citizens ahead of those that have recently arrived in the country.

Whenever people talk about migration they need to specify what type they're talking about. Brits tend to lump all migration in together, which is less than helpful. Especially when talking about the rise in legal migration in the UK which is very much a consequence of UK government policy.

I suspect this is an unpopular opinion but I can't bring myself to boo Fofana. I know he behaved like shit but he was a huge part of our cup win, especially his performance in the final. This has definitely changed over time, but success at that level kind of trumps everything else for me. Same with Kante and Mahrez.

People all over England. Yorkshiremen famously hate the term. They're very modest people.

Yeah I went in May to the cathedral and was surprised how bad the town was. Didn't think that much of Cheltenham either, though the countryside was gorgeous.

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Gloucestershire is very beautiful

even our shitty seaside towns are better than other counties'

Norfolk. We have some of the best quality soil in England and we were one of the richest and most densely populated parts of Europe in the middle ages. Norfolk has been malting barley since Roman times and it's still some of the best in the world. We have 650 complete medieval churches still, more than anywhere else in England and a higher concentration than probably anywhere in the world. They contain thousands of medieval paintings and stained glass that surpass most places in the country. Medieval Norfolk was a cultural centre that produced the first book written in English by a woman and possibly the first autobiography in the English language. Norfolk was the home county of Nelson, the Boleyns, the Howards and the Walpoles. Abraham Lincoln's family originally came from Norfolk and many Americans can trace their ancestry back to the county. Because Norfolk declined in importance after the industrial revolution, we've been spared a lot of the development that has blighted other parts of England and we still have a lot of countryside that feels quite unexplored and unchanged for hundreds of years. One of the great joys in Norfolk is getting lost down one of the thousands of little country lanes that go nowhere, roads that still follow the medieval paths that connected the many villages that no longer exist. We have a beautiful coastline with England's largest seal colony. Unsurprising that the royal family choose to spend so much of their time in the county.

Very beautiful in parts and lots of history.

Yeah same. I like the European way of opening late on Monday and easing into the week a bit slower. The change is too abrupt here so like you say Sunday becomes some kind of depressing cliff edge into another week.

Sounds like a peasant boy from 15th century France pretending to be the teenage Edward V to destabilise the English government

I think she's a better analyst than presenter. When I've seen her present she seems to struggle a bit.

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I think he's saying it's ok to throw baked beans on impressionist paintings