News At A Glance #19

By ASH Smyth
August 2022

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 2 August 1906

For 200 years William Collins has been asking the questions that matter.

There is a statue of Steve Jobs in Budapest.

Vladimir Putin was Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 2007.

The European Commission has approved €181.5 million worth of Latvian schemes.

Cows live in houses in Montana.

Grey is the new magnolia.

There’s no TV in Western Sahara.

There are a lot of failed poets in Dublin.

The Jewish philosopher Mendelssohn had a son called Mendel.

It’s difficult to be an ice-skater if you haven’t got an ice-rink.

There are few homes in Britain where you will not find the empty chair and the aching heart.

Boere eats kiwis for pudding.

Even a single exposure to information that sounds like it could be quasi-plausible can increase the perception of accuracy.