Hedgehoppers in search of good newsListen to this articleBeing the very first day of February it would have been nice if there was some good news worth celebrating, but unfortunately nothing immediately springs to mind. With this in mind a newspaper was launched in the US some years ago which vowed to publish only good news. Back in 1965 there was a hit song in the UK entitled "It's Good News Week" by the splendidly-named English group Hedgehoppers Anonymous. The opening lines were: "It's good news week/ someone dropped a bomb somewhere/contaminating atmosphere/and blackening the sky." Unfortunately, my "honeymoon" with Afghan food was not to last.

Source: Bangkok Post February 01, 2026 00:07 UTC