News At A Glance #24

By ASH Smyth
September 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 21 March 1907

The British soldier is not keen on spadework.

Anne Carson was born in Canada, and teaches Ancient Greek for a living.

Birdsong in San Francisco has become softer, thanks to Covid.

There is no such thing as a long sonnet.

We don’t party hardly; we just party hard. And not because we’re bored: we party cos we born to party.

In 1885 the age of consent in England was 13.

In Germany, pistols are much easier to get one’s hands on.

Jeremy Bentham believed in goblins.

John Smyth died at Badulla… aged 26 years.

The Asiatic stinkbug doesn’t bite.

Neefl is what prompts the hunger of the admiral’s eye for your grip.

This was found to be true because Kenneth Rogers made it so.

Disinformation thrives on Facebook.