If you have an automatic door for the outside doors

[conuly]

why do you also need a doorman for the inner set?

These and other questions will never be answered, least of all by the doorman.

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Comments

[smokingboot]

Churchill, yup, war criminal. He crystalised the UK's idea of indomitable Britishness at the very point when such self-identification was needed,and that was invaluable, but there is also an element of the grotesque about it. He who helped us win WWII also helped bring it about with his enthusiasm for WWI. This first great horror set the conditions for the second. It just gets forgotten all the time. That's the film that needs to be made.

[conuly]

Good luck seeing it happen in our lifetimes.