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News wall: Rishi’s ruse

Oct 4, 2020Oct 4, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

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News wall: The Swedish method

Sep 30, 2020Sep 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The Swedish word for tax is skatt, or 'treasure'

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Teachers trapped in sink-or-swim switch to new ways of working

Sep 29, 2020Sep 30, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

They have become the reluctant pioneers, the lab rats of learning

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Fake-news grannies spread virus doom

Sep 29, 2020Sep 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Research uncovers a sinister meme-seeding trend

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News wall: Trump’s taxes

Sep 28, 2020Sep 29, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

"Taxes are the price of civilization"

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News wall: Rishi Sunak

Sep 27, 2020Sep 27, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

Chancellor takes pole position

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News wall: Banksy

Sep 26, 2020Sep 26, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Street artist loses two-year legal battle over trademarks

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News wall: Harold Evans

Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

I'd sit every day marvelling at what simple words put together in the right way could do

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News wall: Epidemiology

Sep 22, 2020Sep 22, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

The distinction between "epidemic" and "endemic" was first drawn by Hippocrates

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News wall: Modern Man just got 35,000 years older

Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

New research shows earlier arrival in Saudi Arabia

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News wall: Poland in LGBT clash with EU

Sep 21, 2020Sep 21, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Around 80 towns declare themselves “LGBT-free”

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News wall: Churchill’s secret guerrilla army

Sep 20, 2020Sep 19, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

A sort of Dad's Army with dirty faces

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Diary snapshot: Duvet day

Sep 19, 2020Sep 19, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Duvets originated in rural Europe and were filled with the down feathers of ducks or geese

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News wall: Safe-distance social care

Sep 18, 2020Sep 18, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

To improve opportunities and life chances, to strengthen families and to protect human rights

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News wall: Test & Trace

Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

NHS Test and Trace is an outsourced service provided to the National Health Service in England

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News wall: Boris’s Brexit

Sep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

‘Boris Johnson claims to have signed an international agreement by mistake’

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News wall: Chimpanzees

Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

The biggest threats to the chimpanzee are habitat loss, poaching, and disease

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News Wall: Weeds

Sep 16, 2020Sep 16, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 3 Comments

A plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place"

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News Wall: Venus

Sep 15, 2020Sep 15, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ 1 Comment

It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty

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News Wall: Boris to break the law

Sep 14, 2020Sep 14, 2020 ~ Billy Mann ~ Leave a comment

Will he shift position? Don’t put your pension pot on it.

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