Pointed answer

Has television host Alexander Armstrong (right) revealed himself to be a Tablet fan? During an episode of the BBC quiz show Pointless – in which contestants have to correctly answer a question with an answer nobody else has guessed – Armstrong asked a contestant who works in media how he went about collecting newspaper clippings. “I start with The Guardian,” he explained, to which Armstrong, a former Durham Cathedral choirboy and choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, replied: “And how far down until you come to The Tablet?”