This week’s other news quiz
Read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London) this week.
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Friday 4 May 2007:
‘Sometimes the news seems like a dodgy phone-in TV quiz show, where nobody knows the answers because the questions make little sense. So here are my alternative questions of the week….’
Tuesday 1 May 2007:
‘Stephen Hawking has often been said to talk and “walk” like a Dalek. Now he even seems to think like one. The Dalek in question is not of the ex-ter-min-ate! variety, but the humanoid hybrid who, in Saturday’s episode, wanted Doctor Who to help the last Daleks to find a nice new planet where they could put their evil past behind them. The day before, Professor Hawking suggested doomed humankind should do the same….’
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