On a lighter note, you could not make this up: [added Jan 2011: Hmmm. It can be a mistake sometimes to be too allusive. I now cannot see what I thought was the lighter note, or why I classified it as "Political correctness". Obviously, trafficking is a particularly vile crime. There must be something in [...]
In case you have forgotten, the Chilcot enquiry has supposedly been hard at work for two and a half months. John Chilcot said that the 5 members (himself, Lawrence Freedman, Martin Gilbert, Roderic Lyne and Usha Prashar) would start by looking at government documents. Hearings would start in the autumn. It was possible that some [...]
The teacher rang the doorbell. “I’d like to see your mother, please,” she said when Susie opened the door. “She ain’t ‘ere miss,” Susie replied. “Why, Susie, where’s your grammar?” asked the teacher. “She ain’t ‘ere neither miss,” said Susie. A study of work turned in by final-year students at Imperial College, London – one [...]
In an article earlier in the week, I managed to call the virus responsible for the expected UK epidemic of “swine flu” H5N1, whereas it is actually H1N1 (error since corrected). But my error was somewhat forgiveable. The current system for naming flu viruses is just hopeless. The “current seasonal flu” – which people got [...]
This made headline news for a day or two. The President relaxing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Jay Leno: I imagine the bowling alley has been just burned and closed down? Barack Obama: No, no, in fact, I have been practising … JL: Really! BO: I bowled a 129 [applause] JL: That’s very [...]
