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“The past is a foreign country,” goes the saying, “they do things differently there.” It’s certainly easy to mock – the haircuts, the clothes, the ideas. Take the 1980s, for example; we look back in mock- Tudor horror at A Flock of Seagulls, Alexis Carrington, football violence and disgraced TV presenters. We can also, from our 21st Century towers, snort derisively at the attitudes to gay people that held sway back then. They were considered, at best, loony-lefties only found in ‘that...

The Americanisation of the UK? I (Mr) found out this morning through HRH @Pearls that the American fast food restaurant Denny's Diners, (who knew!?) is coming to Swansea at some point in the very near future. Another American Diner for the city. So what do you think about the Americanisation of our culture, language (English..) and even down to restaurants and food chains? Is it good for us? Bad for us? Is our own way of life being lost? Does it grate you when someone says Airplane, or...