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Sir Henry Hoghton. The 1790 re-print of
the original menu, with wild boar and
quail, was found at the home of an
Oxfordshire bookseller who died.
Auction house Dominic Winter,
in Cirencester, Glos, expects it to
fetch around £800.
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by martin fricker
We’d care more
for PM’s news if
he cared for us
THE moment you learn
you are about to
become a dad is an
incredible one that
stays with you for ever.
Credit Boris Johnson for
wanting to experience it
with as many women as
possible. I’m sure his other
family is delighted.
His supporters (and
some neutrals) are chastising
anyone not delirious for the
Prime Minister on this, as well
as his engagement.
The trouble is, I’d be more
enthusiastic if it didn’t carry
the stench of being timed to
wipe Sir Philip Putnam’s evis-
ceration of Home Secretary
Priti Patel, and the bullying
allegations mounting against her, from
the news agenda.
I’d be a bit more considerate towards
Johnson’s new(est) family if he could
care less about the families of the many
men and women risking their jobs to
complain about Patel’s supposed
conduct.
I’d be pleased for the Johnson family if
he was actually bothered about the fami-
lies wrecked by his government’s ongoing
hostile environment campaign or if he’d
shown any kind of leadership over the
coronavirus crisis. I’d be
delighted for Johnson if I
thought he could give a
flying fleece about the
hundreds of families in the
north who trusted him
with their votes only to be
abandoned as the floods
continue to wreck their
homes.
Or if he actually cared
about the thousands of fami-
lies using food banks or the
relatives of the men and
women declared fit for work
while seeking benefits, only to
drop down dead.
I’d be happy for Johnson’s
family if the news hadn’t
emerged over the past
few days that Nazanin
Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s family are now in
fear that she too has contracted the
coronavirus.
The British-Iranian woman detained
in Iran, remember, remains inside
Tehran’s notorious Evin prison after
Johnson bungled what should have been
a simple process to free her.
So yes, best wishes to Johnson’s partner
Carrie Symonds.
But we all have families too. Johnson
doesn’t care about ours. Why should we
get excited about his?
joyful Johnson and Carrie
‘‘If only he were
bothered
about lives of
people in dire
situations
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@MirrorDarren
Honest and opinionated
DARREn leWiS
In the 1995 movie Outbreak, there’s a scene where a man coughs in a
cinema and the camera tracks the flight of his germs into the
mouths, ears and eyes of the unsuspecting people around him. I
remember it every time I see people who really should take the basic
hygiene advice we give to our kids if we want to combat coronavirus.
a lifE THaT all aDDs up
If you can see it, you can be it –
and my little ones idolised
formidable NASA
mathematician Katherine
Johnson who recently
passed away, aged 101.
The terrific actress Taraji
P. Henson brought to life
Katherine’s story in the
inspirational film Hidden
Figures as she bravely
defied sexism and
racism to earn the
respect of her male
peers. It’s a movie
you must see, and
there’s a book of the
same name.
Barack Obama
presented Katherine
with the presidential medal of freedom
- the United States’ highest civilian
award – four years ago and she has
even had an “Inspiring Women”
Barbie doll produced in her
likeness.
Trivial you might think – but as a
parent you want to surround your
children with as many positive role
models to explore as you can.
Three years ago
NASA opened a
computational
research facility
named in her
honour.
Watch the film
and you’ll
appreciate
w hy.
inSPirinG:
Maths genius
KatherineextravaGant The menua MENu for the lavish 129-dish
17th century banquet at which
King James i is said to have invented
the “sirloin” has been discovered.
Historians claim the monarch was so
impressed with the cut of beef served
to him he pulled out his sword
and “knighted” it. King James
said: “Loin, we dub thee knight,
henceforward be Sir Loin.”
The huge meal was held in
1617 at Hoghton Hall, the
Lancashire home ofKing James’ menu for
sirloin banquet found
biG eater King James i