News At A Glance #31

By ASH Smyth
December 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 22 June 1909

Matthew McConaughey’s Murph watch now comes in the size fans demanded.

Ted Hughes edited several surfing videos.

A pre-paid £50 electricity card now costs £102.60.

One gentleman has eaten a pork pie for breakfast every Christmas Day for the last 57 years.

English has no words for the shiver and the headache.

Tristram Shandy is a weak novel.

No-one is losing any sleep over the secrets of the Mexican air force.

Thomas More’s head was pickled in spices.

You meet a lot of people in the Royal Marines.

The pessimist sees the whole.

The national diet of Japan is modelled on a bicameral system.

New time zones are available.

In 16th-century Ulster, poets and storytellers were so highly valued that a master poet held the same standing in law as a lord.