We meet Dark Mhairi, the wise woman of the village, with her ancient knowledge of healing herbs.

For these lighter leavenings of the heavy dough of debate, members were in Sir Winston's debt.

Mariners on sailing ships would sound the depth of the water with a weighted rope.

Smartphones make a lot of compromises to be compact and low power though, so the hotword performance was never as good as it could be thanks to tiny microphones and low-power modes that could kill hotword detection.