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Double Check
- 26 March 1999
The government wants to limit the power of local councils. Chess, unlike darts, will be a "sport". Ikea's store in Bristol is banning bearded men
Dog's breakfast
- 19 March 1999
The theme of William Hague's fourth Tory relaunch was "the kitchen table"
Tough Bananas
- 12 March 1999
British-American foreign policy talks on Iraq and Kosovo were interrupted by the trade dispute over bananas
Biological
- 05 March 1999
Love is biochemical, claim Pisa scientists, who observed that it resembled obsessive cleaning. Tony Blair "changed gear" for a single currency
And smelt so? Pah!
- 26 February 1999
The Met denied institutional racism. A halitosis expert claimed Shakespeare was worried about bad breath, judging by his frequent references to it.
Gene Genius
- 19 February 1999
The government won't be banning genetically modified food, but will insist on clearer labelling
Police Academy
- 12 February 1999
Bow Street, the Met's oldest station, is to become a museum where the public can have a "police experience"
This Sporting Life
- 29 January 1999
The Olympics bribes scandal continued, and a major Monet exhibition opened (With apologies to Lennon & McCartney)
