[Magdalen] Today

[Grace Cangialosi]

I was listening to a news program on NPR this evening, and at the end of it the announcer said that, although for many years it has been their practice on April Fool's Day to include a couple of false news stories, they felt that there was already enough of that this year, so they weren't going to do it!

> On Apr 1, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> This side of the pond a lot of government-related changes happen on 1 April, which I have been known to say is often an appropriate date for them. (I am making no comment on company changes which meant that a couple of listren have found themselves now in a new company.) I have noted what seems to me to have been a bumper crop of April Fool jokes this year and wonder if that is a reflection on what seems to be an increasingly mad world we are living in. Over here we have to cope with all the uncertainty of leaving the European Union which (to me and many others who look at it dispassionately) makes no sense. In practical terms we will still need to comply with most if not all of their regulations without having any input into formulating them, and have extra costs into the "bargain".
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> The referendum campaign was a battle between heart and head, trying to go back to some golden age of the past which is gone forever or dealing with the workd as it is now. As so often happens the emotional appeal won.
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> Roger
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