President Putin was on a webcast for the BBC today when people could ask him all sorts of questions. Seeing as he's nearly always stony-faced, I'd liked to have asked him "Do you know any good jokes?"
Possibly we might have all fallen about laughing. I tried the "my dog has no nose! How does he smell? Terrible!!" joke to a small Dutch audience and, in translation, it got a fair to middling cackle!
Putin could have said "Моя собака не имеет никакого носа! Как он пахнет? Ужасный!" I, for one, would have greatly appreciated it!
The Chancellor finds his flexible friend to spend and borrow more
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The budget will be full of extra borrowing as the government tries to find
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