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The Sound of Music, which some viewers might find distressing. Chichester Festival Theatre has slapped a trigger warning on the beloved musical, noting that it touches on “the threat of Nazi Germany and the annexation of Austria”.
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European hotels, whose beds are not up to American standards. A recent article in The Washington Post interviews multiple Yankee tourists who couldn’t get a decent night’s kip on the harder mattresses preferred in the Old World – and who expressed shock at the custom of pushing together two single beds to make a double. “I’m on the way to the chiropractor,” says Nicole Dunn, a PR exec who went through the gruelling ordeal of staying at the Angel Islington Hilton Hotel in London. “I can still barely move.”
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Boris Johnson, who indirectly caused a spot of holiday inconvenience for his brother-in-law. When I tried to change money at Mexico City airport, says Ivo Dawnay, husband of Rachel Johnson, in The Spectator, I was told I was a “politically exposed person” and therefore couldn’t use the service. “The sins of the brothers-in-law, it seems, will always be with me.”