Dishoom is catching a wave of colonial nostalgia as Britons time-travel to the era when the people of this rain-soaked dot in the dismal north Atlantic raped, traded, pillaged and murdered their way to running the biggest empire the world has ever seen.
Canadians and Australians pay about 8 times more per capita, the French and Japanese 14 times more, Britons 24 times more and Germans 41 times more.
(Shout! Factory, $159.99, not rated) ATTACK THE BLOCK The producers of "Shawn of the Dead" offer another tale of plucky Britons (this time the residents of a South London housing project) fighting off foreign invaders (this time snaggletoothed aliens).
On Christmas Day, Britons found time to spend about £728m online, reckons credit-rating agency Experian, on Boxing Day another £856m.
The BBC may still be the world's widest-ranging broadcaster, but it gobbles up less than a third of Britons' viewing time; about half the remainder is accounted for in minuscule slices by dozens of specialist digital outfits catering to particular constituencies.
The Centre for Welfare Reform calculates Osborne's austerity programme has so far hit disabled Britons nine times harder than the average, while those with severe disabilities were 19 times worse off.
Muslims are Britain's poorest community, five times more likely to live in overcrowded accommodation than their fellow white Britons, four times more likely to be unemployed, twice as likely to have no qualifications, live in social rented accommodation, and suffer from ill health.
Having celebrated the winner last year, the best Briton this time around was Wales's Becky Brewerton in a tie for 21st.
In 2009 about 1.2m Britons (four times as many as in 2006) borrowed £1.2 billion this way.
4.27pm BST Robson 0-2 Li* Not a good start for the Briton, then – time to make up for it straight away?
