I can't see that instant coffee is any quicker to make than coffee, if your coffee is already ground (kept airtight in the fridge of course). There's more clearing up to do, filter, cafetiere etc, but no more time in preparation. And that assumes you have an instant kettle that boils water in less than five seconds.

Fresh brewed coffee is about aromatics, as is fresh roast and fresh ground. I'll forgive anyone with no sense of smell but that's all.

Coffee and alcohol - separate where possible (I forgive my partner Maggie's coffee and Bailey's), but Irish Coffee is one of the many gifts to the world from that great nation, bless 'em.

And if you non-British think that drinking tea is somehow inferior, then you're doing it wrong:-)

Les