News At A Glance #15

By ASH Smyth
July 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 19 July 1906

The Right Honourable Michelle Donelan MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Education.

Muhammad is the most popular boy’s name this year in the UK.

Twitter has laid off 30% of its recruiters.

There is a monument in Georgia that gives instructions in eight languages on how to rebuild society after an apocalyptic event.

An estimated 80,000 Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians now live in Georgia.

There is a species of fish called The Bastard Trumpeter.

Most people have never touched a theremin.

Falklands Radio reached 6.7k people in the last 7 days.

South African Europeans are not welcome to Karachi.

Karl Marx once wrote a comic novel called Scorpion and Felix.

Reuben Harwood was also known as Iron Ramrod.

Some people cannot hold their drink.

Wiener’s theory finds suggestive analogies between tales of book acquisition and stories of sexual conquest.