News At A Glance #11

By ASH Smyth
June 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 24 August 1906

Bottle-fed babies are more likely to develop rubber fetishes.

Nearly all the Mongolian style pieces are in F minor.

In the Pacific Northwest, in 1983, outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom led a loving and peaceful existence.

Macbeth is an opera without a love affair.

James Dauris is the head of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office’s Latin America Department. He was formerly British Ambassador to Peru, and before that British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Everybody seems to be eating sardines.

Life is cheap in the European Union.

Rilke believed in Night.

Cyndi Lauper has psoriatic arthritis.

The second person to survive going over Niagara Falls later died from slipping on an orange peel.

Membership of England Rugby Club’s First XV is now on sale.

If there are gods, they’re in the Drakensberg.

Geoff Dyer’s first book was a critical study of the works of John Berger, which is no longer in print.