News about Stanley Spencer

Our questionnaires reveal that your results are important. They help us identify what kind of people we are. Thousands of pubs hold their own quiz nights every week. Few other occasions bring the generations of people together in the same way. And on television, they can have a huge effect. Britain had its own scandal in 2001 when contestant, the Coughing Major, was accused of cheating on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? With the help of accomplices, we were able to get home. However, perhaps the biggest controversy of the University Challenge has been turned into a festival of political correctness, with some of whose answers being more or less impossible to answer, and many more (I suspect) being answered because so many teams now prepare for them.

CRAIG BROWN: The Royal Fine Art Commission asked me to contribute to a book of short essays on how to protect our surroundings in honor of Coronation. For a long time, I have favoured halting all road work. This will save money, reduce traffic, and encourage us all to travel with greater caution. We spend a lot of time and money on our roads, but then we spend even more time and money on speed bumps, speed cameras, and speed limits to make them faster. We should not allow our highways to deteriorate. They will be back to bumpy tracks before long, so lorries and lorries will have to drive cautiously, with no need for any of the expensive and unsanitary equipment.