Are the working poor of today better off than the kings of old? I provide one reason to think they are, and describe some of my adventures in international travel, and a really nifty pair of cuff links I bought in a charity shop for the princely sum of £2. Also a discussion of the finer details of nuclear waste disposal, in the context of asininity at Asse. Unfortunately this show was interrupted in the middle by some kind of network failure.