33,292 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 215 of 333.
“At the time of the attack, President Vladimir Putin welcomed Southeast Asian leaders to an ASEAN summit in Kazan, some 430 miles east of Moscow.”
“Nicholas Kristof used his columns to promote the embattled tech mogul Bill Gates as recently as December 2025, long after unflattering revelations about Gates's close personal ties to Jeffrey Epstein—and the Microsoft billionaire's infidel…”
“He has scored 79 career goals, 26 more than any other Englishman in history”
“Your items should arrive within 8 - 12 working days (1 - 2 days processing time plus shipping).”
“The Wall Street Journal reported in late May that, much to Gates's alarm, his "carefully cultivated public image has been shattered by revelations about his association with Jeffrey Epstein."”
“and is only getting better at 32”
“save up to 75% on selected products”
“In at least seven separate columns since 2019—after Gates's relationship with Epstein was revealed in the Times's own news pages—Kristof has touted Gates as a prescient and prudent humanitarian whose philanthropic work is protecting the gl…”
“raking 50-yard passes to teammates”
“up to 70% off”
“the Times itself broke the news about the close relationship between Epstein and the Microsoft founder in 2019.”
“for seven years”
“you’ll get $35 off your next order as thanks. Your reward can even climb to $80 if you refer friends to the store too”
“The Obama administration,”
“has four children”
“introductory coupon for $210 off your first order”
“In a year with more than 40 major elections worldwide”
“He spent a decade at Tottenham Hotspur”
“"private concert Marcus Mumford performed for her daughter Ashley's 40th birthday"”
“In 2023 he left for Bayern Munich”
“7.8 magnitude earthquake”
“first trophyless season in 12 years”
“520,000 homes collapsed”
“He has now won two German titles and a German cup”
“52,000 dead officially”
“to equal Wayne Rooney’s record of 53 England goals”
“six days”
“These past 80 years I have never been up later than ten o’clock, even on New Years’ Eve. My normal bedtime is nine.”
“They murdered 1,200 people.”
“My son, who is English, born in London, reminded me he had bought me a Scottish shirt for my 90th birthday. On the back it says: HUNTER 90.”
“when the Nazis killed six million Jews.”
“Haiti are 83rd in the world ranking, compared with Scotland’s 43rd, but they looked pretty good to me – tough and fit and well organised.”
“Yet, amazingly, John McGinn scored after 28 minutes.”
“As the football world now knows, Scotland hung on and won 1-0.”
“Then we discovered they were top of their group, with three points.”
“Brazil and Morocco had drawn.”
“I liked the look of the young Bournemouth winger Ben Gannon-Doak, aged 20.”
“I regularly went through the alarming process of defrosting the fridge up to about 20 years ago.”
“This article appears in the 17 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman, The Race.”
“Twelve British adults, aged from early twenties to mid-thirties, coalesce on a Croatian resort to confront their sexual hang-ups.”
“He admits to spending 16 hours a day playing online video games.”
“the sexual crisis that plagues this generation – with one in eight 26-year-olds still a virgin”
“This article appears in the 17 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman, The Race”
“at least 16 editions appeared by 1640”
“Greg Doran: Venus & Adonis is at the Pit theatre at the Barbican, London EC2, until 27 June”
“This article appears in the 17 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman”
“summer of 1592”
“until October”
“until June 1594”
“April 1593”
“a 15-piece set of stories”
“In Book 10, Ovid recounts the tale”
“late 1590s”
“until 27 June”
“17 Jun 2026 issue”
“An order was issued that they stay dark until October, but any hope of their reopening on schedule was scuppered by the outbreak of plague. In the interests of public health, they would remain shut, with brief intermissions, until June 159…”
“Venus and Adonis appeared in April 1593, in a handsomely printed volume.”
“It did very well; at least 16 editions appeared by 1640.”
“‘I’ll worship sweet Mr Shakespeare,’ says a fop in a student revue performed in Cambridge in the late 1590s, ‘and to honour him will lay his Venus and Adonis under my pillow.’”
“Shakespeare, obviously keen to make his mark in the modish genre of narrative poetry, had taken his plot from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a 15-piece set of stories full of sex, violence and magical transformations then popular as a sourcebook am…”
“When Coleridge listed the features that constituted the poem’s greatness, one of them was ‘that affectionate love of nature and natural objects, without which no man could have observed so steadily, or painted so truly and passionately, th…”
“Sathnam Sanghera’s new book, in which George Michael headlines Glastonbury with his two dozen hits”
“(he sued his record label twice)”
“as Sanghera puts it, he “did away with himself slowly, over more than a decade, in plain sight””
“in seven separate incidents, he was caught either driving erratically, or falling asleep at the wheel”
“(Cyprus was part of the empire until 1960)”
“Andrew Ridgeley’s came over from Egypt because of the Suez crisis of 1956.”
“Sanghera ... points out that the death took the best part of a decade.”
“In the pop world, only Jimmy Somerville and Andy Bell were openly gay.”
“299pp”
“17 Jun 2026 issue of the New Statesman, The Race”
“just an extra £800m on immigration enforcement”
“England has roughly 350,000 listed buildings, and 2.8 million homes in conservation areas (zones of special historic or architectural interest).”
“The roundtable had 15 cross-sector attendees, including representatives from the Wellcome Trust, Whitbread, National Trust, Historic England, Octopus Energy, Greene King and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, among others.”
“Data from Historic England would suggest that making the process more straightforward would benefit homeowners and free up local authorities, with 93 per cent of listed-building consent applications for retrofit works given the green light…”
“Eaton Square, is now subject to a local listed-building consent order (LLBCO), permitting large-scale improvements to windows, awnings and solar panel installations that could reduce residents’ annual carbon emissions by 19 per cent.”
“In one building, they were told by the local authority to install 'heavy floor-length curtains and decorative fabric walls' instead.”
“But she agreed that 'inconsistency across planning authorities does erode that confidence and makes it a harder capability to build into our teams.'”
“In its report, Grosvenor recommends a funding grant for an upskilling programme, offering local planning authorities access to training and conservation specialists.”
“the Center for Countering Digital Hate said Musk played an 'instrumental' role”
“In 2014, the Observer profiled Musk under the headline “The new It Boy of Silicon Valley””
“History tells us that, adjusting for inflation, other individuals have managed it, at least notionally. They were, however, Song or Mughal emperors, whose dominions’ economies accounted for 25 per cent of global GDP.”
“The war itself lasted only a few weeks, but the aftermath has been considerably longer.”
“The final round of pre-war talks took place in Geneva on 26 February.”
“Washington would have to accept the continued existence of a regime that repeatedly triggers a 47-year national trauma caused by the US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran which lasted 444 days.”
“After Bari Weiss’s commandeering of 60 Minutes”
“Net population growth between 1981 and 2021 is below the British average in all boroughs aside from Manchester and Salford.”
“Growth in outer boroughs such as Tameside (5.8 per cent), Wigan (0.8 per cent) and Bolton (0.1 per cent) remains modest-to-negligible”
“while other areas have seen a decline in economically active population, such as Bury (-0.1 per cent) and Rochdale (-4.3 per cent).”
“Between 2004 and 2022, Manchester and Salford have seen a growth of 12.6 per cent and 11.6 per cent respectively, while areas like Stockport (2.6 per cent growth) and Oldham (5.7 per cent growth) have experienced very low growth.”
“Trafford (-2.5 per cent) and Bury (-8.2 per cent) have seen decline.”
“Fares are cheaper and the system is more coordinated and reliable than when the bus network was run by competing private operators.”
“But while this has been a marked improvement, it only takes the system to a level with that operated by TfL in London.”
“Significantly, the buses are not publicly owned, just regulated by a more empowered public authority.”
“A network of “new Manchester Men”, a cross section of the local business and political elite, won bids for programmes such as the Central Manchester Development Corporation, the Hulme City Challenge and the development of the Metrolink tra…”
“By the early 2000s, Richard Florida himself had bestowed his approval on Manchester’s embrace of the so-called “creative class”.”
“600 of the basketball team’s supporters chose a third option: a sports bar opposite Victoria Station, on the ground floor of an office building housing several consulting firms, with at least three fake zebra heads mounted on the walls.”
“For the British fans I met – all of whom had been watching Knicks games for several years at least”
“A year later, in the summer of 2025, an orchestrated campaign saw thousands of flags attached to lampposts, spreading from Essex and the outer suburbs of London to the north-east and beyond, coinciding with yet more protests outside migran…”
“Britain, we heard from every quarter that summer, was a “tinderbox” which, in the words of Telegraph, “would need just the tiniest spark to go up in flames”.”
