Category: Briefs

“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

Spirit of the Emperor  A marketing triumph is Napoleon Brandy. The great man never drank spirits, contenting himself with Burgundian Chambertin which he rarely drank

The 17.4m people in the UK who voted to leave the EU are often characterised broadly by media commentators as “uneducated”. But according to Rod

Boris Johnson is the first baptised Catholic to become UK Prime Minister, though subsequently, as a teenager, he underwent confirmation as an Anglican.   Source: Damien Thompson, The

As the schools break up in England this week, our motorways will be busier than ever. Here’s three odd insights to the world of British

Professor Norman Stone, who died aged 78 on 19 June 2019, was an eminent historian renowned for the research he invested in his books. According to