BEYONCE

Overheard at my son's after school club. "We've been drawing Beyonce for Black History Month."

Now, when I first heard that, I took it as a stand-alone gag and assumed that the child in question had veered from the National Curriculum - but no, according to the local paper, they have indeed been learning about Martin Luther King and Beyonce, seemingly in the same breath. The idea that Beyonce is a) already history and b) in the same league as MLK... well, what can I say?