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!
Will there be enquiries into all those budget leaks?
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It used to be a strong requirement that no-one in the know leaked anything
about the budget. When I was Margaret Thatcher’s adviser I read draft
budget pa...
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