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The former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has the correct answer to this one, as reported in the Guardian. "Gabrielius Landsbergis, a former Lithuanian foreign minister, said: “This was not a mistake. A mistake is something like imposing tariffs on penguins. What we saw in...

Betteridge's law of headlines applies here. As it does to probably the majority of articles in the Mail and Express etc. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

The late Lou Reed already has this covered with his lyric for Dirty Boulevard on his 1989 New York album. "Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor - I'll piss on 'em That's what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death And get it over with and just dump...

"OK one last time; these are small but the ones out there are far away"

Television, Marquee Moon also needs to be on this thread.

This article may also offer some insight. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/former-harrods-worker-manager-brushed-off-fayed-complaints The incident which happened to this woman was mild by comparison with many of the others, but yet: "When she resigned shortly afterwards to pursue a...

These are all great choices (although I'm less familiar with the Cowboy Junkies one than the others). I was also going to put forward if you ignore mini albums and go for debut full length then Surfer Rosa may take the prize. Another band around the same time where you can do the same thing...

Au Revoir Les Enfants About Jewish kids hiding out from the Nazis in a rural Catholic boarding school in occupied WW2 France. A true story which is autobiographical from the childhood of the director Louis Malle.

In case people haven't seen this yet:

The Rolling Stonemasons

That's not correct. Frecciarossa is just a brand name of Trenitalia for their high speed long distance services. All part of the same public company, not a separate operator. Details here: https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/frecciarossa.htm

That article is headed "04 MAR 2022 | 04:43 PM UTC" There's a clue part way down when it starts talking about covid 19 social distancing measures being enforced in demos.

This Argy Barbie? I'm not surprised you can't be bothered at that price. Amazon UK: Mattel Dolls of the World Argentina Can't help you with the buses; soz

Posh Spice is a well-known former pop singer Who has since gone on to flog overpriced clothing and fashion accessories And when she's shagging Beckham That's a normal part of a marital relationship She is also unlikely to have been much aware of Gary Hart