Haven't read it, but my own rule is that if it starts out shit and then gets worse, it probably isn't going to get any better.

If you read them in the voice of the comedian David Mitchell the books are, indeed, funnier. There is no truth to the rumour that they are one and the same person, or that the comedian David Mitchell is in fact a glove puppet moved and voiced by the ventriloquist-author David Mitchell.

No idea what you're talking about, and neither does historical record. Gordon Brown was the only world leader calling the others to action in the financial crisis of 2008. Not Obama, who had only been in office for a week, nor Merkel, but Brown. It sounds mad to say it now, but even Putin followed Brown's call to action. I'm no fan of the guy, but he acted when action was needed. For more information of why the 2008 global financial crash happened, watch 'The Big Short (2015), the events of which all happened on George W's watch.

Tony Blair left power 15 years ago but still lives in your head rent-free. Besides, given the choice between having the UK at 2005 living standards or those of Tory 2023, you'd struggle to find anyone who would choose Richi's austerity model.

How can the modern Conservative party go against 'all its values and ruins the country' if those values are determined by the Conservative party? Thirteen years of Tory mismanagement have brought the UK to its knees. Everybody is sick of their failures. Their Boomer base is dying out and everyone under 50 despises them. Our entire political system is seem as abject and corrupt. Embracing the German system might be a way of at least keeping the Union together

France and Spain have wild bears. There are over 300 Cantabrian brown bears in the Picos de Europa park in Spain alone.

Michael Chabon's Moonglow contains multiple references to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, it doesn't hinder the story if you haven't read either of those two but they would be good follow-up reads if you liked it.