Letter
‘How lovely! The surgery have invited us for blood tests on the 10th.’
The Spectator
Thursday
Jump
‘Break a leg!’
Monsters
‘The ones that are a wonky shape are just as tasty!’
Funeral 3
‘Firstly, thank you for coming and a special thanks to the Skype mourners.’
Corbyn 2
‘I think you’ll agree the box is just as effective without chocolates.’
Tunnel 12
Profile
‘To be honest, she’s a bit young for me. She looked older in her online profile.’
Weapon
‘Sarge, looks like we’ve recovered the murder weapon.’
Wine 4
‘It stopped breathing so I was giving it the kiss of life.’
Veil
‘I’m not happy about the veil.’
Stones
‘I expect they couldn’t afford to go into a care home.’
Doctor 5
‘I’m prescribing you large doses of blame, guilt and shame.’
Careless
Bonding
Letters | 11 February 2016
What’s best for Europe? Sir: It seems that the British negotiations in Europe have produced little, and even at this late stage they would surely be more effective if the tone were based more on what is best for Europe as a whole (‘Fighting over the crumbs’, 6 February). If we leave, we will desert
Barometer | 11 February 2016
Matters of life and death Lord Lucan is now officially presumed dead. How do you have someone declared dead? In England and Wales, under the Presumption of Death Act 2013… — Anyone can apply to have anyone else declared dead, but if the applicant is not a spouse, civil partner, parent, child or sibling of
Portrait of the week | 11 February 2016
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials to make immigration checks on the French side of the border, and, his spokesman predicted: ‘You have potentially thousands of asylum seekers camped out in northern France who could be here almost overnight.’ Mr Cameron
Flying doctors
A few months ago, paramedics were on the brink of industrial action. They had legitimate grievances. Ambulance services were being run down, their staffing levels were dangerously thin — and the mismanagement (much of it exposed by Mary Wakefield in The Spectator) was horrendous. But in the end they stepped back from the brink —
The Spectator Podcast: Turkey can’t cope. Can we?
[audioplayer src=”http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thenextrefugeecrisis/media.mp3″ title=”Listen to this week’s edition of the The View From 22″] Listen [/audioplayer] In this week’s issue, Laura Pitel discusses whether the next refugee crisis emerging in Turkey could dwarf the first which has gripped Europe. Turkey has taken in two and a half million refugees – nearly three times as many as
