CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Race Across The World: Three glasses of Georgian wine and Margo was flying!

Race Across The World (BBC1) 

Rating: Four out of five stars 

What do you have for Christmas dinner? It’s not ‘turkey’ any more. Also, you’re not allowed to go to ‘Turkey’ on holiday — and don’t say Katie Price‘s luminous dentals are ‘Turkey teeth’.

The woke pronunciation, according to John Hannah’s voiceover on Race Across The World, is ‘Tur-keeyeah’. You know you’re saying it right if you can make it rhyme with ‘Sir Keir’. Then everyone will know how politically correct you are.

This fad for renaming the country ‘Türkiye’ isn’t only pretentious, it’s nonsensical. Just like Istanbul and Constantinople, it is (in the

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