Really? I live in Britain and the nearest restaurant listed in the Good Food Guide is about 100 yards from my house. There are four others within half an hour's walk. All of these serve very good food for less than the cost of a train ticket to London, let alone a trip abroad. Last list I read (published by a Parisian magazine) ranked two restaurants in Britain in the top ten restaurants in Europe, both above the top French one. I couldn't find that one online, but Wikipedia has a list of the top ranked 50 restaurants in the world. This list is by a British magazine, so expect a little bias, but it's based on reviews from chefs and food critics around the world, and lists British restaurants in positions 2 and 14, and a few lower down, with the top spot occupied by a Spanish restaurant and ranked a British restaurant top in the world in 2005. Another of the top hits on Google ranked a British restaurant top in the world, with a French restaurant second.

That's not to say that it isn't possible to eat bad food here. It's a lot easier than on most of the continent, particularly if you eat in pubs or cafes (although some of these now do very good food). A lot of people tend to eat lots of frozen food here and a lot of places that serve food (especially pubs) buy pre-prepared meals and just reheat them, with the sort of quality you'd expect from that process. As long as you avoid places like these, food tends to be good.

As for coffee... I can't really disagree there. Coffee shops quite often sell either instant, filter coffee that's been standing for a few hours, or things so full of cream and sugar that you can't tell how bad the coffee is because you can't taste it. That said, the cafe in the marina where I frequently work when the weather is nice (yay for free WiFi) does a cafetiere of decent coffee (they also do espressos and sugary coffee-like drinks) and serves decent tapas and filled pittas and wraps (mmm, grilled haloumi...)

Partially True. A station has a set amount of data it can transfer. If a station splits its signal over too many channels (like High-Def's sub-channels), you can get down to a quality that is indeed worse than FM.

Never happen. All it takes is one accident after the cuts, and all fingers point back to the Congressmen who championed the cost cutting bill. No politician worth his salt will put himself in the position to be the target of a statement like this: