Smash the orange
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said the government’s Brexit plans could ‘fall apart like a chocolate orange’. But the point of a chocolate orange is that it doesn’t fall apart easily at all. Launched by Terry’s of York in 1932, many of its TV adverts have emphasised this theme:
1978 ‘Tap it and unwrap it’ — yokel shown tapping it lightly against tree trunk.
1998 ‘Whack and unwrap’ — man shown thumping it against a wall.
2010 ‘Smash it to pieces, love it to bits’ — several people struggle to break the orange, including a secretary with a phone and man who whacks it on a glass coffee table, breaking the table.
Porn-watching
The government said porn sites must introduce credit card-based age verification systems to guard against access by children. How many people look at porn online?
— A 2016 NSPCC report said 65 per cent of 15- to 16-year-olds and 48 per cent of 11- to 16-year-olds had accessed it in the UK.
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