at a drinks event in westminster, celebrating the bbc's 2015 magna carta season, an asian man approached paul sinha and said, "you must be paul". "how did you know?" asked paul, and the man replied "because people have been saying 'hello paul' to me all evening."

later on that evening, william hague gave a speech about magna carta that was so historically inaccurate it made simon schama say "oh for fuck's sake" out loud