Archive for 2006
BBC News: A man has been arrested in the loans for lordships investigation:
The man was arrested in the London borough Redbridge for an offence under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925, [Scotland Yeard] said in statement. He is currently in custody in a London police station, it added.
The police have said the man is not an MP or a peer but would not say if he was a member of political party.
The Independent has this week begun its second UK sudoku championship. To enter you need to send in nine completed championship sudokus grids. These are being printed daily and yesterday’s was the first of fourteen. As last year, everyone who submits nine correct puzzles will be invited to a regional heat where they will compete against the clock. The top 100 will then go through to the final and the chance to succeed Ed Billig as the champion.
To pass the time before we find out who’s going to run Italy, some anagrams of the protagonists.
Did Silvio Berlusconi manage to con bilious livers, or did his vice sour billions? His short concession speech: “I, vincible. Our loss.”
Would Romano Prodi be one of Blair’s favourites: a primo donor? Because Italians overseas can elect senators to represent them, centre-left voters in Scotland will be hoping they get on and “ordain oor pm“. The anti-war brigade shouldn’t hold out too much hope though: Prodi could be an Iran doom pro.
How did I miss this? The Actor Toby Stephens – whom you may knowing from such TV series as Cambridge Spies and Waking the Dead, or as the villain in the awful Bond film Die Another Day – is the son of Maggie Smith and the late Robert Stephens.
Stephens, regardless of his other roles, was the evil Abner Brown in the BBC’s classic adapation of John Masefield’s The Box of Delights. And Smith, regardless of her other roles, was marvellous in Murder by Death.
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