In the margins of a recent trolley, I came across a slightly damp magazine sculling around Station Approach, a damp magazine which, after drying out on a radiator, turned out to be the 'Byline Times'. A slightly less rancid version of 'Private Eye' gives something of the flavour.
I learn, for example, that the words 'Wales' and 'Welsh' are corruptions of the invading Anglo-Saxons' word for slave. Nothing to do with fat, seagoing animals. A story which I failed to confirm in OED, where I find 'whale', 'wheal', 'wale', 'weal' and 'wealth', but nothing about slaves or Wales. Maybe there is a link between wealth and slaves, but I have yet to find it.
Quite a fat magazine, presumably produced on a shoe-string, so standard of fact checking and proof reading presumably not that great, despite best efforts. Probably best to check anything striking before recycling it.
A good find, nonetheless. I dare say I will buy one if I come across one on a news stand.
References
Reference 1: https://bylinetimes.com/.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline_Times.
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