... weather announcements once put out in all seriousness by the BBC Home Service (as it then was): Fog in the Channel. Continent isolated. It wasn't the island of Britain that was isolated, but the Continent! It also means that Ireland represents the ...

... 3L Cats, in love ago that a headline appeared in, I think, The Daily Telegraph, trumpeting: Dense Fog in Channel; Continent Isolated.) Some years ago, my play A Life was nominated for a Tony Award. It had no chance of winning it had by then finished ...