News At A Glance #35

By ASH Smyth
March 2023

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 25 September 1906

Jet travel makes a nonsense of geography.

At any given time there are 6,000 ships carrying containers around the world.

You don’t have to wear LYCRA® to go bowling.

The Panopticon has excellent dining facilities.

Life in the UK is full of people with earphones.

Hurricane Eleanor has decided to move off East.

Only 600,000,000 people watched the first moon-landing.

Late-autumn wasps are drunk.

The editors of this magazine do not speak Georgian.

Mr French is always amusing.

If you didn’t live through 1998, you don’t know what sanctimony is.

There’s no I in ‘team’; but there are four in ‘Transformational Leadership Model II’

Many ballot booth models exist.