Quote: Nick Rivers @ December 9 2008, 12:43 PM GMTDoes the Queen Mum still qualify? All good treasure should be buried.
And kept in a large air tight box.
National Treasures Page 2
Quote: Nick Rivers @ December 9 2008, 12:45 PM GMT
Johnny Ball and John Craven.
National treasure: Charlie Brooker. If slightly annoying sometimes. But usually correct in his critique and a good writer to boot.
And Armando Iannuci, although he hasn't had anything on this year. Looking forward to The Thick Of It film and Time Trumpet/Thick Of It DVDs.
The BBC pre-1990s - a world leader in proper broadcasting, plus free education and reportage that was as unbiased as you could get in our dystopian past ... er ... future ... er, past.
The Spitfire (and its pilots) - the one material thing that stood between an overt dictatorship in Europe as opposed to the the covert one currently being installed. Imo. And it's so bloody beautiful, too.
Churchill - flawed, fractured, bipoloar, dogged, utterly human, and the focus for ordinary Brits' spirit of resistance during the dark days when most of our other institutions were preparing to make a deal.
The great philosopher Peter Ustinov.
Stephen Fry.
And Marmite.
Red telephone boxes. And, on a telephonic theme, prostitutes cards in phone boxes.
And tramps' piss.
Quote: zooo @ December 9 2008, 3:20 PM GMTAnd tramps' piss.
And tramps. There's something reassuring about the great British tramp. 
You, my girl, are pony obsessed. Are you not?!
Quote: john lucas 101 @ December 9 2008, 3:27 PM GMTYou, my girl, are pony obsessed. Are you not?!
A treasure should represent something bigger than human. Ponies get my vote.
Quote: SlagA @ December 9 2008, 3:12 PM GMTThe Spitfire (and its pilots) - the one material thing that stood between an overt dictatorship in Europe as opposed to the the covert one currently being installed.
I'm not sure it's so much covert as people are just stupider though.