“The playing fields of Eton don’t seem to cut it any more eh ?”
The old school tie is in a political knot.
Sitting on the pledge.
It is alleged that Donald Trump has promised $8m to charity in the last 15 years but so far only donated $2.8m.
“Curiouser and curiouser”.
The US. presidential campaign captures the attention of the globe.
Loonie-tunes.
Devaluation: The Royal Canadian Mint produce a $20 coin depicting Batman v Superman.
Now cracks a noble heart.Good-night sweet prince.
William Shakespeare reaches 400.
Ring of truth.
Posted photographs that appeared to liken president Erdogan to Gollum have prompted arguments in the Turkish courts about good and evil.
Eco battute.
![Umberto Eco [1932--19th Feb.2016]Italian intellectual and novelist [the Name of the Rose].](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1502201421022016.jpg?w=479)
Umberto Eco [1932–19th Feb.2016]Italian intellectual and novelist [the Name of the Rose].
Brideshead revoked.
Castle Howard,the location where Evelyn Waugh’s novel’Brideshead revisited’ was filmed has become the object of sibling rivalry.The heir is evicting his younger brother who has run the estate for 30 years.
Big ideas begin with small pencils.
Critics of the new education curriculum say that the pursuit of the ‘Big Idea’ comes at the expense of basic skills.
Bridging the Arts and Sciences.
Oliver Sacks,eminent neurologist died Aug 30 ’15.His work inspired films,plays,even an opera and he had a minor planet named after him.
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