Category: Briefs

UK citizens returning from the Czech Republic must quarantine, but one issue never goes away: why do we spell Czech with a “Z” but pronounce

As travel restrictions to Portugal from the UK are lifted, some might wonder why Portuguese is the language of Brazil while every other country in

There are now less than 100 days to go until the 2020 US presidential election. A recently-published book reproduces the Anglo-American reporter, Alistair Cook’s, note

A new portraits exhibition by David Hockney includes a series drawn on canvas using charcoal and coloured crayons. According to a leading art critic, this is

“There are said to be 138,000 bars in Spain. This as many as the rest of western Europe put together.”   Source: Ghosts of Spain,

Reportedly, just 5 per cent of the world’s 7.7 billion population has ever travelled by aeroplane.   Source: Edward Lucas, The Times, Monday 9 September