The thing is, based on statues and giant billboards “peppering the landscape” a visitor from North Korea would probably conclude that England is a dictatorship ruled by David Beckham. (In fact, this is not the case: we are a parliamentary democracy ruled by a git.) Of course, for truly great billboards you gotta go to Pyongyang. It is time to cast out all the fatted calves from the temple. I don’t know what that means, but it sounds apt.

North Korea. Makes up in billboards what it lacks in wine, women and song.