If I Ruled The World: Christopher Somerville
Reader's Digest UK|August 2023
Christopher Somerville is a prolific travel writer and the walking correspondent for The Times. His book, Walking the Bones of Britain, is published this month
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If I Ruled The World: Christopher Somerville

Beer would be non-fattening

I love the taste, the feel and the mythology of beer. I grew up in the Great Beer Drought of the 1960s and 1970s, when all beer was fizzy and tasted of chemicals. Nowadays, it’s easy to find good beer—and get fat on it. When I rule, a team of scientists will produce a mystery enzyme which, when added to beer, will render it entirely non-fattening.

Geologists would be forced to explain themselves to everyone

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