Hipster
'Let’s go somewhere else — this place has turned into a hipster hangout.'
The Spectator
Thursday
Party 3
'Sigh. One of these days we'll come home to find they've had a wild party.'
Party 4
‘Please like me and share me.’
Queen 3
Witch 5
‘I won’t believe you’re innocent until you’ve been accused by Tom Watson.’
Parrot
'You'd better go, he'll be home soon ... you’d better...'
Bears 4
'Oh, just the usual Nordic noir: a seemingly run-of-the-mill porridge theft leads to the discovery of a serial killing, people trafficking, drug dealing, paedophile conspiracy.'
Looks Familiar
'Looks familiar — was he on "I'm a Celebrity", "Big Brother" or "Strictly"?'
Mother 3
'It's another of those extremely obscene and threatening phone calls. Do something — she’s your mother.'
Waterstones
‘We decided to focus on coffee.’
Gun Store
Roadshow
'How much did you pay for it?'
Wheel 4
'Oh no! Someone's stolen the wheel.'
Phones
‘Everyone’s viral for 15 minutes.’
Beagle
‘He was a smoking beagle. Can he have a last cigarette?’
Myth 2
'I think this dispels the myth that they never reached old age.'
Rhymes
‘... for today’s the day the teddy bears order pizza ’n large fries and stay in to play computer games.’
Letters: The immoral Vladimir Putin
Putin the gangster Sir: Putin is a gangster’s gangster. While he ruins Russia economically and diplomatically to keep himself in power, he behaves like a renegade in Ukraine and Syria (‘Putin’s triumph’, 10 October). He is a stirrer and an adventurer, who causes danger in the world and to his fellow citizens. In 2011 he
Four great demolition disasters
Bang goes the plan The demolition of six tower blocks in Glasgow failed when the top half of two of the blocks settled upright on rubble. Some more demolitions which went wrong: — A girl of 12 was killed and several people injured in 1997 when the Royal Canberra Hospital toppled rather than collapsed in