Word of mouth
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Who, what, why - news explainers
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- What does a VAT rise do to £9.99?
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- How are airports kept open in cold weather?
- Why do trains have winter timetables?
- Why do schools shut when it snows?
- Why do footballers wear snoods?
- Is a potato-only diet bad?
- How to stay up all night
- Could mass cash withdrawal bring down banks?
- Are giraffes at risk from lightning?
- How to disembark a crowded train
- What is a 'shellacking'?
- Why the kingfisher comeback?
Previously in A Point of View
- Too much information (Alain de Botton)
- Justifying what matters (AB)
- What diaries can teach us (Joan Bakewell)
- Do you really want to live forever? (JB)
- The importance of compromise (JB)
- Does reading make us happier? (JB)
- Sexing up the Tudors (Sarah Dunant)
- When bling was a crime (SD)
- Greedy babyboomers (SD)
- Will students find their voice? (SD)
- History and cuts (Lisa Jardine)
- Lavish cake-baking (LJ)
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- Killing in the Name
- Down Under
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- Fairytale of New York
- Anarchy in the UK
- Flowers in the Rain
- (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
- Morning has Broken
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
- Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
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