AND SO TO THE 5 BIG QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK.Byline: Brian Reade Brian Reade is an award-winning writer who has two weekly opinion columns, one on sport, in the Daily Mirror. He is a left-wing republican with very outspoken views, and has interviewed many well known people, including Mohammed Ali. (1) ARE the five most annoying words in the English language: "Stephen Fry said on Twitter"? (2) HOW come green campaigners attack Prince Andrew for taking helicopters everywhere, but when 30 Greenpeace activists sit on Westminster's roof causing police choppers to hover all day, they're saving the planet? (3) THE BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. reviving costume drama Upstairs Downstairs next year. With Cameron's Tories in power surely that will be a reality show anyway? (4) THE next book by Sheryl Gascoigne. Will it be called "Gazza The Poltergeist poltergeist (pōl`tərgīst) [Ger.,=knocking ghost], in spiritism, certain phenomena, such as rapping, movement of furniture, and breaking of crockery, for which there is no apparent scientific explanation. Keeps Poking Me From Beyond The Grave"? (5) WHY the conjecture over what would have happened if Morecambe had accepted Wise's offer to split in 1950? Surely Eric would have become a comic genius, Ernie a bingo caller, and we'd have had exactly as many laughs? |
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