Does anyone bloody care?
Piltdown Man: British archaeology's greatest hoax.... Now scientists aim to put an end to the mystery once and for all.
Haven't they got anything better to do?
And was it really 'the world's greatest scientific fraud'?
One is really so very, very glad that the perpetrators of the Dreadnought Hoax are wellknown to history, otherwise doubtless speculation would be immense and still ongoing, with a book out every few years fingering the latest round of suspects.
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Dept of Codslappery:
A large and smelly codfish taken to Caitlin Flanagan and her 'Gurlzz!! Let's all go back to my roseate vision of what the 50s were like, derived entirely from sitcoms' book.
Jay Rayner:
When you find yourself reaching for the word "challenging" to describe your dinner and wanting to shout: "Who put all the bloody mushrooms in my pudding?", it's time to get your coat.
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Modern techniques are great. They're brilliant. If you want to cook my steak by banging it round the Large Hadron Collider, be my guest. Dehydrate my pig cheeks. Spherify my nuts. But only do so if the result tastes nicer.
Alas that the Hatchet Job of the Year award is confined to book reviews.
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Further on 'your perceptions of history are rather roseate', Victoria Coren on the dreadful noisiness of modern society. Hands up, folks - when was the UK Anti-Noise League established? 1933, that's when it was established. (i r hystoryan, i haz knoingz.)
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