Now that John Humphrys has called it a day, I’ll never get the chance to be quizzed by him on Mastermind.
Pity. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve wondered what my specialist subject would be. Motown B-sides of the 1960s, maybe. The lyrics of Warren Zevon.
Minder, 1979-1994. The inside story of the great Transport and General Workers’ Union ballot rigging scandal, 1985.
As chairman of the Useless Information Society, a distinguished position I inherited from the late Keith Waterhouse, I am a veritable repository of worthless trivia.
For instance, my encyclopaedic knowledge of old British television series is fairly extensive, as regular readers can attest.
League table of Grand Theatre greats brings actors Trevor Bannister and Peter Byrne to top spots
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A video of a woman apparently being arrested for sitting on a bench was staged-managed by anti-lockdown protesters, Dorset Police said.
Footage, which has been shared widely online, shows three police officers surrounding a woman in Bournemouth for allegedly leaving her house more than once in a day.
The clip then shows a woman being handcuffed and led away by officers as she repeatedly tells them: I was sitting on a bench .
But police believe the video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of an anti-lockdown protest group who were present in the town on Saturday.
The force said three people were arrested following the demonstrations, after refusing to give their details to officers who attempted to issue them with fines for breaching coronavirus regulations.
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