Violence that spills in from the streets may be less worrisome than the worker rampages, to judge by the attentive audience of personnel managers (and the consultants available for hire) at A Growing American Phenomenon: Workplace Violence. The symposium was sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service, which has seen so many outbursts that in some circles excessive stress is known as going postal. Thirty-five people have been killed in 11 post office shootings since 1983. Recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest occurrence of the term in print.

In this spin-doctored version of events, the prime minister was returning from a royal banquet at Windsor Castle, when he received an unexpected call to say his culture secretary was resigning.

The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest.

“The well-known Dr. Kitchener,” however, has discovered, that homebrewed beer is “liquid bread.”