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Curry in favour The BBC apologised after one of its guests for the Jubilee coverage, Len Goodman, revealed that his…
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Long to reign over us The Queen is the world’s current longest-serving monarch, but two in history have had longer…
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A slip of the tongue George W. Bush condemned a political system where one man could wage a ‘brutal and…
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Wagtime Footballers’ wives Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney are locked in a libel trial dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’. The term WAGs,…
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Biergate Sir Keir Starmer was facing the scandal of ‘beergate’. Biergate is a lane in the Lincolnshire village of Grainthorpe.…
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The right to buy The Prime Minister floated the idea of granting housing association tenants a blanket right to buy.…
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Stone me Boris Johnson threatened to unleash the ‘terrors of the Earth’ on an unidentified Tory MP who claimed that…
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Park the issue Gladstone Park in Brent may be renamed as a result of the former PM’s connections with slavery.…
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Off duty How many non-doms are there in the UK? – In the year ending 2020, 75,700 people filled in…
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Palm substitutes Palm Sunday was so-called because of the palm fronds thrown before Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem. But…
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Common knowledge Tensions in the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Jamaica led some to speculate that…
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Time for a change A bill before the US Senate would abolish daylight saving time. Some countries which have previously…
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Thamesky Prospekt Who first coined the place name ‘Londongrad’? The name was used in a BBC sitcom called Comrade Dad,…
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High commodity Nickel trading was suspended this week after prices rose to over $100,000 per tonne – double its previous…
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The wild one Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Vladimir Putin had gone ‘full tonto’. The word tonto is used…
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Blow by blow Did Storm Eunice really set a new record for wind speed in England? A 122 mph gust…
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Facing the music Police in New Zealand played Barry Manilow records to truck drivers in an attempt to persuade them…
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No snow The pistes are covered with artificial snow and the hillsides are bare. Are the Winter Olympics a victim…
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Borderland Few countries can have passed through as many kingdoms and empires as Ukraine — the ‘borderlands’. These are just…
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Prime numbers As of 29 January Boris Johnson will have been Prime Minister for two years and 190 days. Currently…
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Stumped again Were England always so hopeless playing Australia at cricket? Since the first match in 1877 there have been…
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No vax There is nothing new about the anti-vax crowds supporting Novak Djokovic. Organised protest in Britain began with the…
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Waiting for the gong Tony Blair was knighted, 14 years after leaving Downing Street. How long have other ex-PMs had…
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Centenaries 2022 will see the 100th anniversary of: the BBC; Reader’s Digest; Ulysses by James Joyce; insulin treatment for diabetes;…
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Thirsty work Sixty-one pub-goers on a night out in the Tan Hill Inn, 1,500 feet up in the Pennines in…
