We're wizards over Aussies

OKAY, so England's cricketers might have got walloped in the first Test match of the Ashes, but there's still all to play for in the five-match series!

- JAMES MOORE

Now, ahead of the second Test which starts in Brisbane on Thursday, we take a tongue-in-cheek look at the real tests of our historic rivalry with the Aussies.

Here, from booze to swearing, JAMES MOORE reveals where we have the edge over the folk Down Under...

Britain's bonza: Maybe all that sun, sea and surfing isn't all it's cracked up to be. In a recent wellbeing index, more than a quarter of Britons surveyed rated their life satisfaction as very high, as opposed to just 11% of Australians. So much for the traditional barb that we're just a bunch of "whingeing Poms".