News At A Glance #10

By ASH Smyth
June 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 11 October 1906

Otto of Bavaria was the first king of independent Greece.

The financial impact of having to buy shampoo is incalculably small.

Trawler crews have their own brand of humour.

East London has the most beautiful beaches.

More people died from drug overdoses in San Francisco than from Covid.

4-year-olds are just like adults.

Many poets make a living by writing assassination songs.

Samuel Beckett had a spare body.

Sweden remains some way from being a utopia for menstruators.

Claudia Riner denies distributing lesbian erotica in the Kentucky House of Representatives.

‘Jizz’ is any reduced liquid, like demi-glace.

Maltese Christians pray to Allah.

82% of the population can’t possibly be expected to reach an informed opinion.