News At A Glance #27

By ASH Smyth
October 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 28 August 1906

The Queen of Bhutan is called Jetsun Pema.

Dr Simone lived on champagne, cocaine, and sausages.

An unstable regime dominates the Falkland Islands Conservation Zone.

Psychoanalysts are not enthusiastic about randomness.

Germany isn’t, in the long run, funny enough.

In the French army, it’s bad luck to dream about a bus.

There is an area of East London called De Beauvoir Town.

The right of Translation is reserved.

Aubergines are not the only fruit.

Pope Gregory declared the rooster the most suitable emblem of Christianity.

Shakespeare’s daughter was naughty with Rafe Smith.

The effects of living in poverty correspond to losing 14 points of your IQ.

A picture of a clown sitting near a blackboard has had more than 27,000,000 viewers.