On the record
1. Jean-Claude Juncker
2. David Cameron
3. Sir Tim Hunt
4. Jeremy Corbyn
5. President Vladimir Putin of Russia
6. Tony Blair
7. John McDonnell (quoting Mao Tse-tung)
8. Ed Miliband
9. Lord Ashdown (They were, he didn’t)
10. Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party, after giving a poor interview
Animal magic
1. Ants
2. A goat
3. Gerbils
4. Lancashire
5. A dachshund
6. A rabbit
7. Matisse
8. A spider
9. Bears
10. Nutella
Right royal
1. Australia
2. Richard III
3. Princess Charlotte (Elizabeth Diana)
4. The Prince of Wales
5. Britannia
6. The Prince of Wales’s
7. Australia, at the Seppeltsfield Winery near Tanunda
8. Canada
9. China, Chen Dapeng being the sculptor
10. Queen Victoria, who reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes
Numbers
1. Liz Kendall
2. Twelve
3. The Population
4. Modigliani
5. Julian Assange
6. Angola
7. Ukip
8. Never Mind the Buzzcocks
9. China
10. Japan
At the pictures
1. Inside Out
2. Michael Keaton
3. Wrestling
4. A drummer
5. Mortdecai
6. Steve Jobs
7. The Walk
8. Pan
9. Jupiter Ascending
10. Brooklyn
Seasonal
1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam, XXX)
2. Charles Dickens (The Pickwick Papers, Chapter XXVIII)
3. Thomas Tusser (Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry)
4. Kenneth Grahame (The Window in the Willows, Chapter 5)
5. John Evelyn (Diary, 25 December 1657, under Cromwell)
6. Robert Browning (Christmas Eve)
7. W.S. Gilbert (Bab Ballads, ‘Ferdinando and Elvira Or, The Gentle Pieman’)
8. Thomas Hood (‘The Pauper’s Christmas Carol’) 9. Max Beerbohm (A Christmas Garland, in parody of Kipling)
10. John Masefield (The Everlasting Mercy)
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