So they say
1. President François Hollande of France
2. Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, of Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister
3. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, during the winter floods
4. President Barack Obama of the United States
5. Sir Elton John, on gay marriage for clergy
6. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as self-proclaimed caliph
7. Baroness Warsi, when she had resigned
8. The late President Ronald Reagan in a newly discovered recording of a telephone call to Margaret Thatcher after the United States had invaded Grenada
9. Ed Miliband
10. Philae, the lander on comet 67P (according to its Twitter account)
Talking telephone numbers
1. Bananas
2. The Gherkin, at 30 St Mary Axe
3. The No vote in the Scottish referendum
4. Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf
5. John Darwin
6. Claude Monet
7. Psy
8. Ming
9. Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan
10. 777-7777
Flicks
1. Timothy Spall
2. Wes Anderson
3. Benedict Cumberbatch
4. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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