* The BBC had some sort of competition with teams from Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. I caught the end while channel hoping. Saturday night and a heavy cold, Northern Ireland and England were kneck and kneck, the rules allowed the competitors to exclude a team from the question round, the entertaining thing was the obvious and deep desire of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to prevent England from winning thus Scotland and Wales conspired in the hope of getting Northern Ireland to win, even to their own detriment.
The english engaged in a bit of booing, but eventually won on phone votes.
Obviously, as elsewhere in the world, the english are regarded with some contempt by the other members of the UK. My suggestion is that Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland form a breakaway union and leave us English to get on with screwing england up. My only doubt is the advisability of union with Northern Ireland which is notorious for disagreeing with itself. Three separate states may be a better solution.