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15:25 UK time, Wednesday, 12 May 2010

In Cameron's cabinet: A guide to who's who, it includes the fact that Theresa May has an exotic taste in shoes. I hope that as the only woman this is entirely coincidental, or alternatively as she is the minister for equality this is intentionally ironic.
Luke, Edinburgh
Monitor note: This article has since been updated.

Re Why is the door at 10 Downing St so shiny? Georgian properties on the Thomas Coram Estate had a covenant that stated front doors had to be black. Ours was a hotel in Hunter St.
EnglishFolkfan @BBC_magazine

Time for a haircut! (Why human hair is being used to mop up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico)
nbasty @BBC_magazine

What do those not interested in politics talk about? The tennis.
Joanna Jones @BBC News Magazine

The World Cup squad.
Oliver Jillings @BBC News Magazine

What do the English traditionally talk about? The weather.
Chris Rutt @BBC News Magazine

Our latest coffee flavours this end - Island Coconut and Fudge Brownie.
Candace Sleeman @BBC News Magazine
Monitor note: Why not just *eat* a chocolate brownie with a cup of coffee-flavoured coffee?

I don't really understand how people can NOT be interested in politics.
Luke Charmander @BBC News Magazine

Ticky Hedley-Dent? Palash Dave? I feel like I've just stepped into a PG Wodehouse inspired alternate reality...
Paul Maplesden, Tunbridge Wells, UK

I suggest a new flexicon entry with the definition "A bumper crop by way of apology" to save Magazine Monitor time in future. How about "grovelheap"?
Joel, Tokyo, Japan